international organizations joined in the struggle to reduce fertility. Three decades later this movement has seen changes beyond …

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental … variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact … of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has. Fertility rates …