'This paper looks at the consequences of political, institutional and market changes for life-course patterns in East and West Germany. It summarizes major institutional changes and developments on the macro level and discusses possible relationships to crucial events which mark the transition to adulthood: leaving education and training, entering ...
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'The paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity that is correlated across all five equations. We use i...
'In this paper, we present a number of descriptive measures of couples' experience of union dissolution in a wide range of European countries. We use data from the last round of Fertility and Family Surveys in order to get a broad cross-country comparison of levels and basic patterns of union disruption in countries considered. We use corresponding...
'We investigate the timing of fertility and marriage as it depends on educational attainment utilizing a birth-month experiment in Sweden that leads to exogenous variation in the age at completing schooling. Our analysis finds that the difference of 11 months in the age at school-leaving between women born in two consecutive months, December and Ja...
'In recent times, both the time spent on education and the age at first union formation have significantly increased in Italy and Spain. In this paper, we provide empirical evidence of the endogeneity of the two processes. We use panel data (European Community Household Panel), which provide detailed standardised information for both countries abou...
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