to poorer households and improving work incentives, 2) the trade-off between improving work incentives for first and for … second earners in couples, 3) the trade-off between improving work incentives for those facing strong and weak incentives in … poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …

migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …

Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility … probability of having a new child by 3.9 percentage points. Reduced fertility is only found at the intensive margin: job … parenthood, as this fertility effect does not appear for low-income and less-educated workers. …

problems or disability. An important component of the Dutch reforms was to enhance employer incentives, which was done by … making them responsible for paying sickness benefits and by strengthening their sickness monitoring obligations. These … employer incentives may stimulate preventive and reintegration activities by firms, thereby improving the employment …

incentives to resume work. With entitlement periods in the first phase of DI benefits varying across individuals, we use a …This study provides insight in the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives, using administrative … individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers receiving partial DI benefits and with substantial …