explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility … in the two different institutional and normative contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Using the German Socio …

fertility; and (2) Formal childcare availability has different effects across contexts, according to the degree of adaptation of …

This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain … complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …

in fertility. However, most research on fertility and happiness uses cross-sectional data, hindering causal conclusions … than men. These results, which are similar in Britain and Germany, suggest that childbearing increases parental happiness … most among those who postpone and have more resources. This recipe for happiness is highly consistent with the fertility …

and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the norm in eastern Germany but the exception in western Germany. A … part of Germany and western Germany. Although the demography of these two regions has converged with respect to mortality … number of explanations, stemming from the policy and socio-economic conditions of eastern and western Germany in recent …

relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in … unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on … Germany, the U.K., France, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Israel. …

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the … paper is to better understand the persistence of these differences by studying the fertility behaviour of migrants from the …

of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant … fertility in the East is higher than in West Germany, despite the severe economic situation in the East, whether the East German …