This paper examines the development of female and maternal labor market participation in western Germany. We discuss major forces that contribute to educational differences in female employment behavior. The empirical investigation draws on data from the scientific-use-files of the...

This work is dedicated to the main trends of development of international education market, globalizing of higher education and conditions and factors of improvement of Russia's position in international education.

The article examines the relevance and quality of additional professional education from the point of view of the immediate-consumers of educational services in business enterprises. On the basis of the survey of 600 companies from six branches of national economy we made the conclusion about...

This study examines the relationship between growing inequality within the population, and the general mortality decline in Finland after 1971. The general mortality trend is considered as a simultaneous shift of population groups toward lower mortality over time, with the group-specific...

In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to the conventional level of education. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational histories of an entire cohort of women born in...

In this research note we extend our previous study of the association between educational attainment and permanent childlessness in Sweden (Hoem et al., 2006) to cover Austria, and we make comparisons between the two countries. In both investigations we have defined educational attainment in...

This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The first paper is about childlessness and education, the...

The aim of this paper is to provide insights into third-birth dynamics in West Germany and Norway. Since the third-birth propensity between both countries differs remarkably, we seek to address the following questions in this paper: What are the characteristics of mothers with two and three...

Lifelong learning is a concept with a goal to increase an adaptation level of a person towards the changing conditions of social environment. It had its own impulse after applying to personnel of modern organizations. Additional development of criteria and procedures was made in this field....