contribution of migrants to the total number of births and compares fertility rates of migrant women with the fertility rates of …€˜assimilation’ in migrants’ fertility to the local fertility patterns and analyses the net impact of migrants on period fertility … rates. This review reveals that migrant women typically retain substantially higher levels of period fertility than the â …

This article opens with a review of the main trends in family-related behaviour, i.e. fertility decline and changes in … fertility patterns, a decreasing propensity to marry, postponement of marriage, and a slowly increasing frequency of divorces …

, particularly for some segments of the population. Fertility trends in Slovenia, as seen in the total fertility rate, have not …. Since then, the total fertility rate has been increasing slightly. Postponement in childbearing began with cohorts born …, particularly on parental leave and pre-school childcare. Notwithstanding, almost no impact of family policy on fertility has ever …

-order birth rates jointly, with a common unobserved factor. The corresponding education-fertility relationships among men, however … we should not take for granted that women’s education generally reduces fertility, and that it does so because of … linked with modest aspirations for further schooling, which would tend to stimulate subsequent fertility, that it is partly …

In this paper we investigate the interrelationships between fertility decisions and union dissolution in Italy and … the 1996 Fertility and Family Survey data for Italy and Spain. Results show that there is a spurious relationship between … fertility and union dissolution in Italy but not in Spain. Nevertheless, in both countries, there is an evident direct effect of …

contrast their fertility developments over the last four decades. Our indexes enable us to decompose overall fertility trends … picture of various cross-country differences in fertility levels. We demonstrate how Swedish fertility has fluctuated … relatively strongly during the whole period while Norwegian fertility has evolved more gradually, at least during the last two …

Early in the 21st century, three-quarters of Europe’s population lived in countries with fertility considerably below … replacement. This general conclusion is arrived at irrespective of whether period or cohort fertility measures are used. In … Western and Northern Europe, fertility quantum was slightly below replacement. In Southern, Central and Eastern Europe …

In the last 60 years, Slovakia has experienced comparatively high and most recently very low fertility, long periods of … stable fertility alternating with periods of changes, periods of substantial as well as lesser state interventions. Fertility …

replacement fertility. Much depends on progression ratios to first and to second births. In CEE mainly the progression ratios to …