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... Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the op[r] ... See full document

... age 17 in 1999, the postponement continues scenario implies a cumulative fertility level until about 2020 that is substantially below the level suggested by the observed ...are 17 and 24 years old in 1999, ... See full document

... The model (A.6) was among those fitted by Thatcher et al. (1998), though in a different notation, to all officially published data on deaths at ages 80 and over for males and females in 13 countries with reliable ... See full document

... If reentry into vocational training thus becomes independent of motherhood, false allocation of exposure time away from the category ‘vocational degree’ into the category ‘in vocationa[r] ... See full document

... Figures 4 and 6 show that adding a common factor to the LC and CoDa models suc- ceeds in reducing the long-term divergence in the forecast life expectancy. For example, under the LC model the difference between ... See full document

... This article systematically evaluates the quality of periodic fertility measures in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for a large set of ... See full document

... Perceived stress was assessed using Cohen’s perceived stress scale (Cohen, Kamarck, and Mermelstein 1983) with a few modifications to fit the Chinese context (Wen et al. 2010). The scale included eight items with an ... See full document

... The period between 1975 and 1989 was also characterized by a decline in mobility. In-migration rates and out-migration were below 30‰ in all regions throughout this time 6 . An explanation is considered to be the ... See full document

... or 17 – usually to enter domestic service, while daughters in manufacturing England tended to be employed in the textile mills while still resident with their ... See full document

... The statistical data also provide valuable checks of alternative explanations based on direct economic incentives. The possibility, floated at the end of section 4, that the decline in Carnian birth rates might be a ... See full document

... for the X-11 method. So we can estimate the percentage of the variation in seasonality attributable to the variation in the distribution of causes of death with respect to age as somewhe[r] ... See full document

... Temporary contracts and high employment turnover, however, have characterised youth labour markets since the mid-1980s (see Figure 3). 5 According to the Labour Force Survey data, during the two decades between 1987 and ... See full document

... to their children than do older parents in more sparsely populated regions with high outmigration rates and, similarly, that the higher portion of inmigrated young people i[r] ... See full document

... The GGP addresses the individual, partnership, and household levels of analysis through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), where individual respondents are in[r] ... See full document

... this article suggest that “quality of care” issues are still distant in provider-client interactions, and the needs of clients, particularly regarding access (Speizer, Hotchkiss et ... See full document

... the article of Davis, Glass (1965) states that the main mechanism of change is the possibility of intra-generational mobility, since decline in infant mortality and parental control over children cannot induce ... See full document

... example, 17% of the women who were born in 1964 and who were recorded with some college education by the time they were 39, had taken this education after age 30 (see further examples ... See full document

... This is represented in the high shares of childless living arrangements: 26.7% of Western German and 14.4 % of Eastern German women do not live with children.. The largest [r] ... See full document

... Knowledge of these transition probabilities allows the estimation of a full multistate life table and corresponding period health expectancies (both conditional and unconditional), usi[r] ... See full document

... In a study on the effect of educational attainment on first, second and third births in Norway, Kravdal (2001) found significantly higher second and third birth rates for women with the [r] ... See full document