Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin—a proxy for … cultural imprint—influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

. Estimation of standard duration models indicates that conclusions drawn from the IABS and the GSOEP differ in many cases. While …

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the … endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment … start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heterogeneity is assessed by estimating ex …