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... (1995:202) argue that in those countries where divorce is still rare women with high educational levels have a higher risk of marriage dissolution than women with lower education becau[r] ... See full document

... In contrast to previous work, we consider indicators of unabridged life tables. We also study the estimates for abridged life table calculations based on the age groups 0, 1, 5, 10, ..., 85+ years. However both ... See full document

... First, the occupations mentioned in the Antwerp data have been coded into the HISCO classification, using the guidelines involved in that coding scheme (van Leeuwen, Maas and Miles 2002). Next, standardized recoding ... See full document

... divorces granted in the United States are available from Jacobson (1959: Table 42) or Plateris (1973: Table 1) but not their distribution by duration. So, for the period 1933 – 1948, Preston and McDonald (1979) employed ... See full document

... Figure 5 shows the numbers of living kin as a function of the age of Focal. Comparing daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters (Figures 5a, c, and e) shows the in- tegrated effects of mortality and ... See full document

... or 5, dividing that sum by the total population aged 23−62 years old, and multiplying by 5 to produce an index which is related to the quality of the age ... See full document

... Finally, yet importantly, the results of the sensitivity tests partially support Hypothesis 1 with respect to the overall level of life satisfaction. We found small but significant positive effects on overall life ... See full document

... We use unique longitudinal data from the System of Social Statistical Datasets (SSD), compiled by Statistics Netherlands (see Bakker, van Rooijen, and van Toor 2014). The SSD was constructed by linking several registers ... See full document

... Informal relations (consensual unions) at the start of living together have the temporary character of a trial marriage for the majority. After some period of time for many couples the relationship becomes fully ... See full document

... The contribution by Yahirun and Hamplová (2014, SC19‒5) extends existing research by focusing on variations in intergenerational contact between married, cohabiting, and single persons across 15 European ... See full document

... Fig. 6 shows an example of changes in person-years lived in an age interval between two consecutive periods. Using the data from the Human Mortality Database, we chose Japanese females for demonstration. As life ... See full document

... class 5, the late partnership formation class, indicating that co-residential partnerships are not being abandoned altogether, nor even postponed much into the ... See full document

... the article in the following way: I begin by describing how social status related to fertility in historical settings as evidenced by societal/legal descriptions and DNA ... See full document

... Positive conflict behaviour is measured using the following question: “Couples deal with serious disagreements in various ways. When you have a serious disagreement with your partner/spouse, how often do you discuss your ... See full document

... finding suggests that a higher level of gender equality in couple relationships may increase fertility, as argued by McDonald. Given the relatively small sample size, it was not possible to draw conclusions based on the ... See full document

... individual, including retrospective reports of jobs held in years prior to the first wave of data collection, up to the latest survey round. The analysis includes measures of whether individuals were currently employed ... See full document

... turned 60 years of age. The empirical strategy employed here consists of analyzing the determinants of upward transitions in terms of occupational status, meaning that every individual needs to report an occupation ... See full document

... residence. 5 Garapich (2008) highlights the weak support and community involvement provided by traditional organisations such as the Church to post-accession Polish migrants, and the lack of non- ... See full document

... Nevertheless, research on neighborhood effects in urban India must confront the same problems as studies conducted in urban America: namely, the self- selection of individuals into neig[r] ... See full document

... Although they do not propose LCLE as an indicator of tempo-adjusted life expectancy, they interpret this correspondence as a piece of evidence, in the linear shift scenario, that curre[r] ... See full document