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Providing easy access to cross-country comparative contextual data for demographic research: concept and recent advances of the Generations & Gender Programme Contextual Database
Caporali, Arianna; Klüsener, Sebastian; Neyer, Gerda R.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
covering up to 60 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania. This paper presents conceptual considerations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851041
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Social norms, economic conditions and spatial variation of childbearing within cohabitation across Europe
Lappegård, Trude; Klüsener, Sebastian; Vignoli, Daniele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851044
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Social norms, family policies, and fertility trends: insights from a comparative study on the German-speaking region in Belgium
Klüsener, Sebastian; Neels, Karel; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
Several countries in Northern and Western Europe report cohort fertility rates of close to two children per woman … play an important role for understanding the current fertility differences in Western Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851047
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The sex differential in mortality: a historical comparison of the adult-age pattern of the ratio and the difference
Wisser, Oliver; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851054
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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2013
This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe … US, there is some evidence that both time effect and modeling choices affect estimates for Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933859
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2012
substitution in their household production in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933900
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Close kin influences on fertility behavior
White, Robert G.; Bernardi, Laura - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008
fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258373
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Le retour de la Chine au centre
Gipouloux, François - HAL - 2011
Au XVIIIe siècle, la Chine semblait bien placée pour occuper la première place dans l'économie mondiale. L'auteur tente d'expliquer comment a-t-elle pu prendre un tel retard.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399190
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Spatial aspects of the rise of nonmarital fertility across Europe since 1960: the role of states and regions in shaping patterns of change
Klüsener, Sebastian; Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Gassen, … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe … half of the 20th century states played a dominant role in drawing the demographic map of Europe. As a result, subnational … variation in nonmarital fertility levels increased as a whole across Europe, and states continued to be important for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646132
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Spatial construction of European family and household systems: a promising path or a blind alley? An Eastern European perspective
Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011
to show the true diversity of familial organization in Eastern Europe, which had been placed at the other end of the … the rhythms of their development in historical Eastern Europe presented in this literature should finally free us from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369051