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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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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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Censuses in 19th century Serbia: inventory of preserved microdata

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

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Social norms, family policies, and fertility trends: insights from a comparative study on the German-speaking region in Belgium

Klüsener, Sebastian; Neels, Karel; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

of only around 1.5-1.6 children. Germany is part of this second group. In order to explain these country differences in … aftermath of World War I, Germany was forced to cede the territory of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium. The population in this area …-speaking region in Belgium with data for western Germany and the Belgian Flemish- and French-speaking regions, controlling for …

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Fertility of Turkish migrants in Germany: duration of stay matters

Wolf, Katharina - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

This study examines the fertility behavior of male and female Turkish migrants in Germany. Our main objective in this … young adulthood. We conclude that the fertility of Turkish migrants in Germany is strongly associated with their migration …

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Family systems and welfare provision in Poland-Lithuania: discrepancies and similarities

Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

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Interdisciplinary research collaboration as the future of ancient history? Insights from spying on demographers

Hin, Saskia C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

This papers investigates patterns of research collaboration in the fields of ancient history and demography and explores studies on the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration in academia

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The sex differential in mortality: a historical comparison of the adult-age pattern of the ratio and the difference

Wisser, Oliver; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...

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Distortion of regional old-age mortality due to late-life migration in the Netherlands?

Kibele, Eva; Janssen, Fanny - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 5, pp. 105-132

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