Several recent papers have concluded that precautionary saving motives are needed to reconcile data on lifetime patterns of consumption and income with a standard optimising model. In this paper we contest that we necessarily need a precautionary motive and we show that if we take consumption to...

In this paper we study the relationship between fertility and divorce. The potential endogeneity of fertility in divorce decisions is explicitly addressed by modelling fertility and divorce jointly. We apply the "timing-of-event" method (Abbring & van den Berg (2002)) to identify the causal...

Die Zeitarbeitsbranche hat in der letzten Dekade auf den Arbeitsmärkten der meisten europäischen Länder eine bedeutende Rolle gespielt. Eine Ausnahme war bislang Dänemark. Nun hat dieser Trend auch unseren Nachbarn erreicht. Ob Zeitarbeit in einem Land, das durch hohe...