of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels …. The number of births per year fell 60 percent. The period total fertility rate (TFR) reached a low of 0.8. Since the … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

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 …

This paper gives an overview of fertility data for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Particular attention is given to … the availability of order-specific fertility data. We discuss the quality of data provided by the Statistical Offices … to generate order-specific fertility indicators, and compare fertility estimates across surveys with estimates from vital …

within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk … cohabiting fertility with marital fertility, the negative educational gradient persists in all countries except Italy, although …

with fertility in Denmark, while the relationship is the opposite in West Germany. We interpret our findings based on our …

conduct cross-national analyses of recent union and fertility behavior over time. A team of researchers called the Nonmarital …, and Russia; the 2003 Dutch Fertility and Family Survey; and the British Household Panel Survey. …

This paper validates the fertility and union histories of the German Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). One major … result from this validation is that the fertility of the older GGS-cohorts is too low, while it is too high for the younger … cohorts. For partnership histories, we find a similar bias. In sum, the GGS gives wrong cohort fertility and marriage trends …

-specific fertility rates for the period 2001 to 2008. Hospital statistics include information on births that took place in German … assessment is that the hospital data are a valuable source for generating order-specific fertility rates, regardless of whether …

marriage and fertility behavior therefore was expected to be severely affected by the upheavals following unification. And … particular are postponing fertility. Women with a relatively low education, by contrast, are accelerating family formation …. Contrary to standard views on East German fertility, we do not find evidence for the hypothesis that unemployment generally …

German Socio-Economic Panel which provides longitudinal information of economic uncertainty and fertility for the period 1984 …