This paper uses recently available data from linked pension and employment registers for Germany, which contain …

Germany, the U.K., France, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Israel. …

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous …

Some 20 years after unification, the contrast between East and West Germany provides a unique natural experiment for … 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 …

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

for Germany. We speculate on various sources for this bias in the data. However, we were unable to find a remedy to cure …

Until 2008, Germany’s vital statistics did not include information on the biological order of each birth. This resulted …

The birth cohort 1971 entered transition to adulthood at the onset of societal transformation in East Germany. Their …

ist, die Erwerbstätigkeit beider Elternteile zu fördern. In konservativ-korporatistischen Ländern, wie in Deutschland …