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Leaving the parental home in post-war Japan: social, economic and demographic determinants

Fukuda, Setsuya - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between home-leaving intensities of young adults and the rapid social, economic, and demographic changes that took place in post-World War II Japan. By using event-history modeling, the study shows that the declines in sibling numbers and in rural residence...

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Living arrangements and household formation in the crucible of social change: Rostock 1867-1900

Szoltysek, Mikolaj; Gruber, Siegfried; Goldstein, … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764562

Additional work, family agriculture, and the birth of a first or a second child in Russia at the beginning of the 1990s

Bühler, Christoph - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

measures (second jobs, part-time self-employment, and part-time family agriculture) and the probability to have a first or a … produce half of a respondent’s or her household’s income. The birth of a second child was also positively associated with the … fact that a household con-sumed food that was cultivated by the household itself. However, none of these activities was …

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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...

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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

Demographic behaviour is shaped not only by characteristics at the individual level, but also by the context in which individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro-macro links by providing cross-country...

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Parental benefits improve parental well-being: evidence from a 2007 policy change in Germany

Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Family policies aim to influence fertility and labor force participation, and support families. However, often only fertility and labor supply are considered in policy evaluations. For example, the 2007 extension of parental leave benefits in Germany is generally considered unsuccessful because...

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The Japanese family system: change, continuity, and regionality over the twentieth century

Kato, Akihiko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

In Japan, many scholars and policymakers as well as ordinary people, have accepted the family nuclearization theory—that is, that the Japanese family system has changed from a traditional stem family into the modern nuclear or conjugal family in the latter half of the twentieth century....

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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...

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Economic stress or random variation? Revisiting german reunification as a natural experiment to investigate the effect of economic contraction on sex ratios at birth

Schnettler, Sebastian; Klüsener, Sebastian - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

The economic stress hypothesis (ESH) suggests that economic decline leads to a decrease in the proportion of males born in a population. A multitude of additional influences on sex ratios that often cannot be accounted for empirically make assessing the validity of the ESH difficult. Thus, as a...

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Censuses in 19th century Serbia: inventory of preserved microdata

Vuletic, Aleksandra - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

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