[…] and the state. The configuration of these providers determines the economic outcome to a high degree, because the income sources a person can rely on have an impact on how serious and how long ranged these consequences are. I also consider the effects of different legal systems as another possible source of protection from […]

[…] from those who are poorly integrated? Integral to the analysis is the cross-national comparison of the relevance of institutional settings (labour market and social policy) and their impact on family formation. Thus we compare the continental conservative German system with the liberal welfare state of the UK. In order to account for differences in […]

The age at motherhood has increased in most European Countries in the past decades. The main aim of this paper is to assess the impact of women’s education and work experience on the timing of first birth across the European Union (EU). According to the literature – based on income maximisation framework (Gustafsson 2001, […]

The age at motherhood has increased in most European Countries in the past decades. The main aim of this paper is to assess the impact of women’s education and work experience on the timing of first birth across the European Union (EU). According to the literature – based on income maximisation framework (Gustafsson 2001, […]

[…] human want or need. It uses historical sequences of time diary sample surveys from North America (US, Canada) and Europe (UK, France, Finland, Sweden) to explore the impact of technological innovation and changes in social organisation over the last third of the 20th century. (This draft has a complete text, but awaits completion of […]

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is […]

[…] decision to migrate is based on the expected benefits of moving relative to the costs. However for couple households the migration decision is complicated by its potential impact on the employment, earnings, and well-being of both spouses. In particular, dual-earner families, which are more and more prevalent, may face a situation where one spouse […]