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births within cohabitation. Relatively few studies in Europe, however, investigate the educational gradient of childbearing … hazard models to examine the educational gradient of childbearing in cohabitation in 8 countries across Europe. In all … within cohabitation or how it changed over time. Using retrospective union and fertility histories, we employ competing risk …
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show that the cross-country correlations in Europe between the total fertility level on the one side, and the total first …
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comparative database of rich reproductive and union histories from surveys conducted in a number of countries in Europe. Given …
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, cohabitation and marriage, parenthood and union dissolution. Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) is used to control for … central and Eastern Europe. Such pattern robustness is supportive of the contention that the ideational or â …
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This article tests the assumption that cohabitation makes a difference in the allocation of child care responsibilities … cohabitation and have overlooked its gender implications. Here we explore whether fathers in consensual unions are more prone than … period of time in ten Western European nations. We found weak evidence of the influence of cohabitation on gender equality as …
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Although cohabitation and childbearing within cohabitation has increased dramatically in Europe over the past decades …, the variation across Europe remains remarkable. Most studies on changing union formation have not explicitly addressed how … state policies may be facilitating cohabitation or, alternatively, stalling the increase of cohabitation by privileging …
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Over the last decades numerous studies have dealt with demographic differences between the former communist eastern part of Germany and western Germany. Although the demography of these two regions has converged with respect to mortality and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the...
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The paper contributes to a debate on recent fertility developments in eastern and western Germany as well as on the lacking convergence of family formation patterns between the two regions. We address the relationship between the perception of instable employment careers and economic insecurity...
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Theoretical propositions on the importance of social effects arising from informal interaction on fertility change are not yet supported by systematic empirical evidence (Kohler et al. 2002). The correct identification of informal relationships sali1ent for fertility decision-making and the...
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This article investigates the role of women´s residential district in the process of family formation in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. Our analysis of the transition to first marriage and motherhood is based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), which we merge with a rich...
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