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... By empirically analyzing differences in the intergenerational transmission of marital instability in the former Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/West Germany) and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany), ... See full document

... was conducted by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) as part of a new census of the Swiss population. Its sample includes approximately 10,000 permanent residents in Switzerland aged 15 to 79 years (the reference date ... See full document

... Lacking any documentation on the method used in sampling, our description of the clustered sample relies on inference and a bit of hearsay. We have been told that the clustered sample was drawn as a way to provide a ... See full document

... All of our assumptions are based on a judgmental view. Therefore, the uncertainty surrounding future net migration in Poland is of great importance. The unpredictable pace of future economic development in Poland, ... See full document

... Finally we included women’s socio-economic status in the model, measured in terms of educational attainment and labour market participation. Using information referring to the highest educational level ever reached, we ... See full document

... The impact of foreigner fertility on total fertility in Switzerland is clear: It widens the fertility curve and causes the early bulge, although this is now dissipating as the fertility[r] ... See full document

... The social structure of Israeli Jewish society, both in religious circles and in secular society, is characterised by a significant cohesiveness and centrality of family life. Both factors imply a significant amount of ... See full document

... Our outcome of interest is the hazard of dying among children under five at age intervals 0, 1–5, 6–11, 12–23, and 24–59 months. We apply this age interval classification to reflect the hazard of dying in ... See full document

... We carried out this analysis and present the results in Figure 6, which compares the cohort economic dependency ratios of foreign- and native-born by education level. The cohort economic dependency ratio (CEDR) is ... See full document

... This assessment was conducted in Bangalore, the capital of the Karnataka state in south India. As in all of India, motherhood and childbearing play a significant role in shaping women’s self-worth and social identity in ... See full document

... transfers. 6 Employers’ authority over human resource and personnel affairs in exchange for employees’ job security is the most prevalent in large domestic ... See full document

... The 1918 influenza pandemic, variously known as the “mother of all pandemics” (Taubenberger and Morens 2006) for its impact on global population and the “forgotten pandemic” (Crosby 2003) for the relative lack of ... See full document

... The cultural opening-up of society becomes noticeable mainly after the mid-1990s (Table 2, last row). Indeed, in the last survey (2000) two out of three young Italians declared to not perceive any objection to their ... See full document

... to the differing transition paths. Table 2 shows that the magnitude of the cost of lowering migration by 90,000 is 28 times the consumption value of one hour worked per week per capita (column 4 of Table 2), which ... See full document

... and divorced mothers are wrongly coded as “never-married”. Figure 6 shows that the differences between the sums of all currently not married mothers, i.e., the sum of the proportions of mothers who never have been ... See full document

... Education may have a positive effect on second birth risks for highly educated West German women who are already mothers but it may also increase second birth risks for highly educated[r] ... See full document

... While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Eastern Europe, including Russia (Perelli-Harris and Gerber 2011; Hoem et al. 2009; Perelli- Har[r] ... See full document

... We apply APC models to data on human cancer incidence rates in different countries and time periods. The data are provided by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in seven volumes (IARC 1965 - 1997). ... See full document

... I show that the alternative measure proposed by Bongaarts and Feeney, called “tempo-adjusted” life expectancy, is exactly equivalent in its generalized form to a measure proposed by bo[r] ... See full document

... Postponement of childbearing was in progress from the cohorts of around 1940 to those of around 1970 in all birth orders, and has apparently come to a halt, at least as far as data are available, among the cohorts of the ... See full document