This article provides a comparative analysis of fertility and family transformations and policy responses in Austria … quarter of century. During this period both societies also grew surprisingly similar in their fertility and family patterns … and main family policy trends. Fertility in both countries is relatively low, but not extremely low when compared with the …

The "Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)" is an important data source for studying the dynamics of families and family … the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other … modern societies. The current sample - although very selective - will allow new insights in the fertility behaviour and in …

Family dynamics are changing in Europe, but only few studies investigate how cohort completed fertility is affected by … increasing prevalence of union dissolution on completed fertility levels in Italy and Great Britain, two countries with very … different systems of value. We find that the net effect of union instability is to decrease fertility (by about 0.5 children for …

Family patterns in Western countries have substantially changed across the 1940 to 1990 birth cohorts. Adults born more … one partnership. These changes have led to an increasing diversity in family life courses. In this paper, we present a … microsimulation model of family life trajectories, which models the changing family patterns taking into account the complex …

and underinvestigated for a long time, we take the challenge of studying attitude towards fathers' concentration on work …

How persistent and universal has the two child family ideal been in Europe during the last three decades? We analyse … nearly universal among women in all parts of Europe. Countries that used to display higher ideal family size have converged … very similar in different regions. The mean ideal family size has become relatively closely clustered around 2.2 in most …

This paper investigates the associations between preferred family size of married women aged 16-34 in rural Bihar … (India) and the fertility behaviours of their biological mother and mother-in-law. This information is based on scheduled … family size is first measured by Coombs scale, allowing us to capture latent desired number of children, and then categorized …

In this paper, we investigate the importance of various aspects of life-that is, the value of family, leisure, work … period. Our results show that family is most often regarded as important, followed by work, friends, and leisure. This … hiearchary remained the same during the last decade. The descriptive results show an increase in the importance of family …

Short-term variations in fertility and seasonal patterns of childbearing have been of interest to demographers for a … long time. Presenting our detailed study of period fertility in Austria since 1984, we discuss the problems and advantages … of constructing and analysing various period fertility indicators that reflect real exposure and potentially minimise the …

Micro-level relationships between union formation or dissolution and childbearing have implications for fertility that … variation and change around replacement level fertility. On the one hand, union dissolution reduces opportunities for conceiving …' children. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility levels is unknown and will depend …