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The population history of Germany: research strategy and preliminary results
Pfister, Ulrich; Fertig, Georg - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010
The paper presents the project of an aggregative reconstruction of the population of Ger-many from the sixteenth … of population size and of annual series of the crude birth, marriage and death rates rests on three types of sources … points in time are used to derive annual growth rates of popula-tion. This information is used to derive approximate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765030
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Transfers, consumption and income over the lifecycle in Germany
Kluge, Fanny A. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009
This paper seeks to quantify all public and private interage monetary flows in Germany applying the National Transfer Account method. Germany's lifecycle deficit is shaped by long periods spent in education, early retirement, and low labor force participation rates among the older work force,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972971
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Assessment of cross-sectional and longitudinal components of a difference with an algorithm of contour replacement
Jdanov, Dmitri A.; Shkolnikov, Vladimir M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
This study proposes a new decomposition method which permits a difference in an aggregate measure at a final time point to be split into additive components corresponding to the initial differences in the event-rates of the measure and differences in trends in these underlying event-rates. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082614
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Ancient statistics and the rise of demography: a historiography of demographic debate on Roman Italy
Hin, Saskia C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
population matters in the Roman Republic and early Empire. More than 170 years of discussion have hitherto not led to any … population statistics into its wider historiographic context. It draws attention to contemporary thought on the relationship … between population, nation and economy, and to the influence of this thought on key contributions to the debate on ancient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227867
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Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany
Scholz, Rembrandt D.; Klüsener, Sebastian - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
In their contributions to the debate on exceptional longevity, several scholars have noted the existence of spatial hot spots, or areas with a high concentration of individuals who have survived to very high ages (e.g. Sardinia in Italy or Okinawa in Japan). However, most of these studies were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734220
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The Patriarchy Index: a comparative study of power relations across historic Europe
Gruber, Siegfried; Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
This paper stands at the confluence of three streams of historical social science analysis: the sociological study of power relations within the family, the regional demography of historical Europe, and the study of spatial patterning of historical family forms in Europe. It is a preliminary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010798320
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Socioeconomic differences in the unemployment and fertility nexus: a comparison of Denmark and Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
-demographic subgroups using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and from Danish population registers. We find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759876
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A golden age before serfdom? The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the 17th-19th centuries
Baten, Jörg; Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
characterized as a “Golden Age” in human capital? We trace the development of a specific human capital indicator during this period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885054
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Measuring the balance of government intervention on forward and backward family transfers using NTA estimates: the modified Lee Arrows
Patxot, Concepció; Renteria, Elisenda; Romero, Miguel … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
In this paper we propose a way to measure the degree of government intervention on forward –from parents to children– and backward –from adult children to elderly parents– intergenerational family transfers (IFT). We carry out a discussion about the possibility of using Generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851040
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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
-developments. With its unique combination of features, this database could serve as a model for the development of contextual databases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851041