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Overview Chapter 3: Birth regulation in Europe

Frejka, Tomas - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 5, pp. 73-84

-- has become the main instrument of birth regulation in Northern and Western Europe and gaining ground in Southern Europe … and the formerly state socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Legal induced abortion use, which was highly … prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe, has been declining since the demise of authoritarian regimes around 1990. Nonetheless …

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Austria: Persistent low fertility since the mid-1980s

Prskawetz, Alexia; Sobotka, Tomas; Buber-Ennser, Isabella; … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 12, pp. 293-360

patterns of leaving parental home, the rise in cohabitation, the decline in marriage and the rise of divorce and the diversity …

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The Netherlands:Paradigm or Exception in Western Europeâ€™s Demography?

Coleman, David; Garssen, Joop - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 12, pp. 433-468

This article reviews the position of the population of the Netherlands in the context of the demographic characteristics of the other seventeen major Western European countries. It attempts to show the ways in which the population of the Netherlands is part of the European mainstream and where...

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To concentration of reproduction in cohorts of US and European women

Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Houle, René - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

We study inter-individual variability in number of children among women. Concentration ratio (CR) and percentile measures are used. In most countries CR has increasing from cohorts of the 1930s-40s onward due to rise in childlessness. In cohorts of the early 1960s CR varies from 0.24 to 0.46...

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Leaving home in Europe: the experience of cohorts born around 1960

Billari, Francesco C.; Philipov, Dimiter; Munoz, Pau Baizán - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

and the formation of a first union. As far as these dimensions of leaving home are concerned, Europe appears to be …

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Regularities and peculiarities of birth schedules in industrialized countries: an analysis of FFS data

Houle, René; Shkolnikov, Vladimir M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Inter-individual diversity of women according to birth numbers (quantum) and birth spacing (tempo) are important for understanding of fertility regimes. Elsewhere, we have shown that diversity with respect to fertility quantum is increasing from older to younger cohorts. The present study looks...

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Becoming an Adult in Europe: A Macro(/Micro)-Demographic Perspective

NNN1Billari, FFF1Francesco - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 2, pp. 15-44

transition to adulthood the "latest-late" pattern of Southern Europe cohabits with its opposite "earliest-early" pattern of the … Nordic countries. In this paper, I discuss multifaceted approaches to the explanation of why becoming an "adult" in Europe … in Europe needs to be multilevel, comparative and interdisciplinary, and to consider the potential implication of …

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Contemporary Research on European Fertility: Introduction

NNN1Neyer, FFF1Gerda; NNN2Andersson, FFF2Gunnar - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1-14

present state of arts in fertility research in Europe, and we then proceed with an overview of the articles of the Volume. …

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Reproduction at the Margins: Migration and Legitimacy in the New Europe

NNN1Bledsoe, FFF1Caroline H. - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 4, pp. 87-116

One of the most compelling demographic questions in contemporary Europe has been whether immigrant populations will … studies to suggest that for immigrant families at the political margins of Europe, especially those from developing countries … adopted by immigrants in Europe may derive less from traditions in their home countries than from efforts to adapt to new …

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The one-child family

Breton, Didier; Prioux, France - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 27, pp. 657-692

results relating to the single-child family model in Europe. Then, we perform a multivariate analysis with the dependent …

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