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. …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the e ffect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions … positive and sizable eff ect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks … use of an alternative set of exclusion restrictions. -- fertility ; employment protection ; difference …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks … use of an alternative set of exclusion restrictions. -- fertility ; employment protection ; difference …

We study the effect of a reduction in employment protection on fertility decisions. Using data from the Italian Labor … the average change over time in fertility decisions of women employed in large firms with the average change experienced … flexibility have on fertility decisions by increasing insecurity on career prospects. …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy … women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …