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... We consider the existence of a large and sometimes confusing number of different approaches to measuring disability as a problem which complicates all attempts to unify research findings, and to make the existing ... See full document

... region dummies, and survey year dummies. We find that part of the January effect is not explained by education and other controls for real wages and formal/informal em- ployment. For real wages, the unexplained gap ... See full document

... Our analysis is based on the baseline dataset from an ongoing, longitudinal project on Women Migration and the Unrest in the Three Southernmost Provinces (2014–2016), conducted by the Institute for Population and Social ... 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

... aged 20–24 are greater than those published by Vital Statistics for 1980 (158 versus 144), 2000 (129 versus 117), and 2010 (106 versus 91), but they are lower for 1990 (127 versus ... See full document

... the 5% level and suggest that recruiters principally discriminate against younger mothers, possibly because they expect them to still be in the midst of their child-rearing ... See full document

... One of the contributions of the present study is precisely its use of a large number of countries over a lengthy historical period. We show that aggregated data (from both the national and the provincial sphere) can lead ... See full document

... Table 5, when we examine all immigrant women, regardless of whether they had their children in the society of origin or destination (left panel), the transition to third birth is more common among all ... See full document

... As noted above, a major concern of the literature dealing with households in South Africa has been the question of whether households should be viewed through the lens of the ‘nuclear’ family or not. Nevertheless against ... See full document

... Following these are countries where the early peak, in the process of transitioning to a later peak, passes through a phase of bimodality (Bulgaria to Sweden): This is the stage when the early mode has declined in ... See full document

... children for biological reasons (less than 1% of the initial sample size in each country) or who have children from different partnerships (14% of the initial sample size in Austria and France, 5% in Bulgaria) are ... See full document

... Furthermore, individuals in the group of more highly educated individuals have a higher likelihood of experiencing a LAT partnership or cohabitation than individuals with a lower education (Hypothesis 2). My second ... See full document

... The title of the special collection suggests demographic changes that Goode did not foresee. In addition to ‘divorce’ one finds the word ‘separation,’ and in addition to ‘remarriage,’ one finds the term ‘repartnering.’ ... See full document

... Age-specific estimates indicate that the probability of experiencing a three- generation arrangement during a child’s first year of life is 17.6% for Asian, 16.5% for black children, 14.[r] ... See full document

... The results of the multinomial logistic regression are shown in Table 2. The dependent variable has four categories, with the most represented category “no participation” as the reference group. Three models are ... See full document

... early 20 th century for farm families and non-farm families alike was the production of eggs, which often brought in enough cash income to allow families to purchase more farm land (Thomson ... See full document

... The evidence pertaining to changes during societal transition is mixed. During the early phases of transition it was feared that the availability of public childcare would seriously decline. These concerns were ... See full document

... Famille, Article 354), divorce may result from the mutual consent of the spouses pronounced by a civil court, or from a judicial decision ordering the dissolution of union at the request of one spouse (MASF ... See full document

... With the continuing survival gains at all ages and the concentration of deaths at older ages (Fries 1980), the sex ratio at different ages has progressively converged to the level of the sex ratio at birth (Figure 2). ... See full document

... level of completed fertility implied by current childbearing behavior”. But if such ‘completed fertility’ does not refer to actual cohorts of women, then what does it refer to? Smallwood et al. (2000) are, in my mind, ... See full document