Raffaele Guetto

TL;DR: It is argued that fertility decisions are not a mere “statistical shadow of the past”, and the Narrative Framework is advanced, a new approach to the relationship between economic uncertainty and fertility.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a theoretical framework (the Narrative Framework) for the study of fertility decisions under uncertain conditions based on expectations, imaginaries and narratives, and argue that uncertainty needs to be conceptualized and operationalized taking into account that people use works of imagination, producing their own narrative of the future.

TL;DR: The second demographic transition theory underlines the importance of changing values and attitudes to explain the trend toward low fertility and raising female labour market participation as mentioned in this paper, but the pace of sociocultural change has not been the same across European countries and the forerunners of the SDT, that is, the most secularized and gender-egalitarian societies, now have the highest female labor market participation rates and the highest fertility.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the gap between insider and outsider workers in terms of training provisions has increased with the recent economic crisis, mainly due to an adjustment of training provision for temporary workers.

TL;DR: The international literature hypothesized a "U-shaped" pattern of immigrants' occupational trajectories from origin to destination countries due to the imperfect transferability of human capital as discussed by the authors, which was later disproved.