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... departure of younger birth-cohorts. Moreover, no increases in the status “alone or with others”, as expected by the second demographic transition, can be found. In fact the reversal is true, as the decrease in the period ... See full document

... substitution effect might only dominate when unemployment is perceived as being truly temporary. Research suggests that displacement is associated with subsequent unemployment, long-term earning losses, and lower job ... See full document

... other countries. In Georgia, where LAT unions are rare, only 6% said that they were not ready. The desire for independence is a more common reason for being in a LAT union in Germany (23%) and France (17%) than ... See full document

... Even in the countries where cohabitation is widespread, however, an individual’s claim to benefits – such as a spouse’s pension or the right to inherit property – is often stronger for those who are legally married. ... See full document

... Karonga is a rural district in the Northern Region of Malawi. Approximately 236,000 people live in the District in some 280 villages. The economy is based on subsistence agriculture and fish from Lake Malawi (23). The ... See full document

... parenthood is still at the top of people’s life priorities (Liefbroer and Fokkema 2008). Despite rising instability of partnerships, family life often continues to be strongly valued and idealised (the Czech Republic ... See full document

... Table 6 indicates for each work plan chosen in 1957, the percent choosing the various 1964 options. The most significant point visible from this table is that the most common answer for almost all of the ... See full document

... A more problematic aspect, however, is that, in spite of improved statistical bulletins and data processing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were deficiencies in MNP coverage. An INE survey (1987) revealed the ... See full document

... Migration data by sex and single years of age were obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Census (via its TableBuilder service [ABS 2009]). These data were derived from the following census questions: ... See full document

... An alternate strategy for legitimating an out-of-wedlock pregnancy or birth, which began appearing in the 1990s, was to present the baby as a vehicle for personal or familial salvation. Thus, a full-size picture of ... See full document

... Among the 65+ population there is absolutely no uncertainty about the direction of change, as revealed by Figure 17e. Significant population ageing is guaranteed (Figure 17f). There is almost 100% certainty that the ... See full document

... were 8% for divorced and 4% for men who never married in 2005 (source: individual level data from Statistics Finland, TK-53- ...about 6% from 1991–1995 to 2006–2010 among men and has decreased among women ... See full document

... Differences between period and cohort indicators are compared separately for each birth order (see Section 6). The indicators were computed for all birth orders specified in the source data, with the last category ... See full document

... First union duration. The mean duration of first union varies from 7–8 years in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia, and the Netherlands to over 11 years in Belgium and Poland (Table 3). However, dissolved first ... See full document

... This approach is based on the concept of ‘lifesaving’, and applies the stochastic model, suggested in Finkelstein (2005), that is used to explain the possible reasons for departures fr[r] ... See full document

... As indicated above, if the number of deaths in an age range remains constant among cohorts but the death distribution within the age interval shifts toward older ages, the number of de[r] ... See full document

... In contrast to marriage, we see was a modest increase in the instability of first unions. This is as we expected given that an increasing proportion of first unions have begun with cohabitation, and that a decreasing ... See full document

... For simplicity, we concentrate in this paper on two particular benchmark scenarios: (i) a postponement stops scenario in which we calculate the parity progression measures assuming that [r] ... See full document

... But even if returning Mexican families face barriers to school enrollment, should we expect the same association in Mexico between duration of residence and school enrollment as observ[r] ... See full document

... Considering the partnership career within a given period of time (5 years) after the career started, persons living in cohabitation showed a much lower propensity of becoming a parent [r] ... See full document