rate reflects several things. One is the high costs of living in Spain for an unskilled, often-undocumented, but also …Based on an analysis of the Spanish census and the January 1, 2005 municipal register and on exploratory fieldwork in … Catalonia, this paper combines ethnography and demography, in conjunction with current Spanish reunification law, to examine the …

In this paper we propose a way to measure the degree of government intervention on forward –from parents to children … about the possibility of using Generational Accounts (GA) and National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodologies to generate … diagrams used by Lee (1994b). An illustration of the results in the Spanish case indicates that the degree of government …

According to the classic demographic transition theory, mortality change was the key factor triggering the decline of … fertility. In a recent paper Reher and Sanz-Gimeno studied the mechanisms which played a role in this process with individual … longitudinal data for the Spanish town of Aranjuez. This study uses comparable data from the Netherlands for the period from the …

Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on … union formation. In this study, we explore the relevance of the female economic independence hypothesis to explain womenâ …€™s patterns of entry into marriage and cohabitation in Portugal and Spain. In these two Southern European countries, gender equity …

In Spain, nearly two-thirds of women aged 20-34 have not yet entered their first union. However, almost half of them … have a stable partner in a different household. Hence, the drop in marriage rates and low prevalence of cohabitation cannot … paper examines the prevalence and determinants of non-residential stable partnerships among young adults (women aged 20 …

Nonmarital childbearing is becoming an increasingly common path to family formation in Spain. The proportion of births … births has narrowed significantly over the past decade in Spain. We argue that diminishing selection processes and increasing … important shift in the sociodemographic profile of unmarried mothers. This study focuses on the impact of mothers’ marital …

Using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD), the paper analyzes the increase in the life expectancy of the … Spanish population during the three decades, 1970-2001, in order to ascertain which age and sex groups have made the most … progress in terms of increasing life expectancy. Within the theoretical context of Health Transition, the authors provide a …

We explore the strong linkages between macro changes and the dynamics of educational, occupational, family, and … the welfare system, centrality of the family as a service provider, and the changing role of women. We outline some … using FFS. In our analysis, we find an increase in the discontinuity of careers and of the heterogeneity among cohort …