The Institutional Context of Population Change : Patterns of Fertility and Mortality across High-Income Nations

Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for men and women who are unable to work and have policies to ease the burdens of working mothers. The United States, in contrast, does not. This study demonstrates how public policy differences such as these affect childbearing among working women, moder

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Pampel, Fred C.
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Fertilität \| Fertility \| Sterblichkeit \| Mortality \| Bevölkerungsentwicklung \| Demographic development \| Vergleich \| Comparison \| Institutionelle Infrastruktur \| Institutional infrastructure \| Industrieländer \| Industrialized countries
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (315 p.)
Series:	Population and development Population and Development Series
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; Tables and Figures; Preface; PART I. THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF POPULATION CHANGE; 1. The Demographic Consequences of Changing Cohort Size and Female Work; 2. Sociopolitical Sources of Demographic Divergence; PART II. FERTILITY; 3. Contextual Variation in the Determinants of Fertility; 4. Relative Cohort Size and the Total Fertility Rate; 5. Female Labor Force Participation and the Total Fertility Rate; PART III. MORTALITY; 6. Cohort Size and Suicide and Homicide Mortality; 7. Age-Specific Suicide Rates; 8. Age-Specific Homicide Rates; PART IV. SEX DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY 9. Sex Differences in Suicide and Homicide Mortality10. Sex Differences in Suicide Rates; 11. Sex Differences in Homicide Rates; Conclusion; Appendix A: Statistical Models and Estimation I; Appendix B: Statistical Models and Estimation II; Notes; References; Index;
ISBN:	978-0-226-64525-4 ; 978-0-226-64527-8 ; 978-0-226-64525-4
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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