We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper … investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions … indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions …

This paper describes some empirical phenomena about sanctions in the unemployment compensation system in Germany using … the unemployed. From these results it is questionable whether the current activation policy for unemployed in Germany …

the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heterogeneity is assessed by estimating ex … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long prebirth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the …

. This study presents a detailed model for the du- ration of maternity leave in which young mothers can make a transition … into a number of states related to employment and unemployment among others. The model incorporates a large number of …- rived from large linked administrative individual labour market data from Germany for a period of three decades. We obtain …

youth. -- Disconnected youth ; unemployment ; school failure ; life adversity …According to our research, some 12% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected, i.e. not …

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 …