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In this paper we propose a way to measure the degree of government intervention on forward –from parents to children– and backward –from adult children to elderly parents– intergenerational family transfers (IFT). We carry out a discussion about the possibility of using Generational...
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In Japan due to the rapid population aging and its large financial pressure on pay-as-you-go retirement systems, the economic impact of bequest wealth has been drawing a tremendous amount of attention. Despite that, there are neither official statistics on bequest for the whole population, nor...
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The political discourse on demographic change has gained momentum in many developed countries. When it began, the discussion centred on the question of how to influence population ageing through political means (e.g., by raising fertility rates). But political decision makers now seem to be...
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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....
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€™s patterns of entry into marriage and cohabitation in Portugal and Spain. In these two Southern European countries, gender equity …
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In Spain, nearly two-thirds of women aged 20-34 have not yet entered their first union. However, almost half of them …
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Spain has recently become the destination for large numbers of international migrants and now ranks as a key focal … point for international migration in Europe. Currently, approximately one in ten residents in Spain are foreigners, up more … issue in the country. In order to provide reliable data about migrants in Spain for researchers and policy makers, acting on …
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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 …
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