The purpose of the study is twofold: Firstly, to analyze the relationship between the foreign
direct investments and economic growth and secondly, to estimate the effect of foreign direct …

We examine the likelihood of becoming a parent in Italy taking into account the employment
(in) stability of both partners in a couple. We use data from four waves of the Italian section of …

BACKGROUND The demographic challenge Europe is facing due to long-term low fertility,
accompanied by pronounced economic uncertainty, indicates the need for adequate policy …

We aim to provide an explanation for the combination of the relatively low female
participation rates and lowest‐low fertility levels in I taly. Starting from the assumption that …

Many papers show that aggregate fertility is pro-cyclical over the business cycle. Using data
on more than 100 million births from 1988 to 2014, we show that for recent recessions in the …

Fertility, or childbearing, expectations have been increasingly identified as an important area
of research, at least in part because expectations may help us to understand family issues of …

Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labor market. A 1999
rise in the French layoff tax paid by large private firms when they laid off older workers made …

This study seeks to empirically examine the effects of demographic change on economic
growth in Middle East countries. As a further step, the working-age population is …

The paper focuses on the long-term determinants of economic development and
demographic transition and identifies the causal structure governing the triad of high …

Does a history of migration in the family influence one's decision to move abroad? This
paper argues that intergenerational transmission of 'migration capital'accumulated in the …