Germany is a low-fertility country with a rapidly ageing population, and will remain so for the foreseeable future …. There are several reasons for this trend. Germany is among the countries with the highest rates of childlessness in the …-marital cohabitation, lone parenthood, patchwork families and living apart together. A culture of individualism has spread in Germany which …

We compare second birth risks in France and western Germany using data from the Family and Fertility Survey. Second … birth risks are higher for highly educated women than for women with lower education in both countries. In western Germany …

The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data … increasing popularity of the Berlin region, the distribution of East to West migrants across West Germany is fairly stable over …

lower than the corresponding level in France and well above the level in West Germany. (In 2004 the Swedish TFR reached 1 …

systems: the USA, the Netherlands and West Germany. Using longitudinal survey data, we examine the transitions of leaving home …

This paper compares the non-marital birth pattern in France and West Germany. Since the beginning of the eighties …, France witnessed a steady increase in non-marital birth rates, while in West Germany non-marital birth rates have remained at … family forms in both countries. In West Germany, we find a polarization in a "family sector" and a "non-family sector" while …

change in variance has been ignored so far. In the case of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, this paper explores how much of …

We analyzed data from the historic population of the Krummhörn (Ostfriesland, Germany, 1720-1874) to determine the …