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“I Have to Start All over Again.” The Role of Institutional and Personal Arrival Infrastructures in Refugees’ Home-making Processes in Amsterdam Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Mieke Kox,Ilse Van Liempt
In this study, we take the concept of arrival infrastructures as a starting point to explore refugees’ home-making processes in Amsterdam. This concept allows us to look beyond formal infrastructures set up for refugees and to take a closer look at all (f)actors playing a role in refugees’ processes of “starting all over again”. Drawing on participatory ethnographic research in a community centre for
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Locational Choice and Secondary Movements from the Perspective of Forced Migrants: A Comparison of the Destinations Luxembourg and Germany Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Birgit Glorius,Birte Nienaber
In 2015 and 2016, the enormous increase in asylum seekers travelling along the Balkan Route confronted the Member States of the European Union with an exceptional pressure on national asylum systems. Since then academic literature has revealed a reappraisal of the Common European Asylum System at regulative and policy implementation level, notably regarding the fair distribution of asylum seekers across
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Development over Time in Cognitive Function among European 55-69-Year-Olds from 2006 to 2015, and Differences of Region, Gender, and Education Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Ying Zhou
With populations rapidly aging, the development over time in the cognitive function among the elderly approaching or reaching retirement is important for successful aging at work and planning pension policies. However, few studies in this field focus on this age group. This study characterizes time trends in cognitive function among 55-69-year-old Europeans from 2006 to 2015, and compares these trends
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Population Ageing and Future Demand for Old-Age and Disability Pensions in Germany – A Probabilistic Approach Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Patrizio Vanella,Miguel Rodriguez Gonzalez,Christina B. Wilke
Industrialised economies are experiencing a decline in mortality alongside low fertility rates – a situation that puts social security systems under severe pressure. Population ageing is associated not only with longer periods of pension claims but also smaller cohorts eventually entering the labour market. This threatens the sustainability of pay-as-you-go social security systems for implementing
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Why Do Young Adults Retreat from Marriage? An Easterlin Relative Income Approach Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Georgios Mavropoulos,Theodore Panagiotidis
Easterlin’s relative income hypothesis refers to the current income of young adults compared to the level of material aspirations acquired during childhood. The hypothesis implies that young individuals are expected to reduce fertility if their material aspirations grow at a higher rate than their incomes. This paper examines whether the same hypothesis holds true for marriage. A higher (lower) level
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Internal Migration, Living Close to Family, and Individual Labour Market Outcomes in Spain Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Clara H. Mulder,Isabel Palomares-Linares,Sergi Vidal
Migration is often viewed as a way to enhance occupational careers. However, particularly in Mediterranean countries, labour market outcomes may also depend on local family resources. We investigate how men’s and women’s labour market outcomes differ between (1) those who migrated and those who did not; and (2) those who live close to family and those who live farther away. Our main contributions are
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Decrease in Life Expectancy in Germany in 2020: Men from Eastern Germany Most Affected Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Marc Luy,Markus Sauerberg,Magdalena Muszyńska-Spielauer,Vanessa Di Lego
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in mortality in 2020 with a resultant decrease in life expectancy in most countries around the world. In Germany, the reduction in life expectancy at birth between 2019 and 2020 was comparatively small, at -0.20 years. The decrease was stronger among men than among women (-0.24 vs. -0.13 years) and in eastern rather than in western Germany (-0.36 vs. -0.16 years)
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Educational Pairings and Fertility Across Europe: How Do the Low-Educated Fare? Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Natalie Nitsche,Anna Matysiak,Jan Van Bavel,Daniele Vignoli
Recent research suggests that the fertility-education relationship may be mediated by the educational attainment of the partner, especially among the tertiary-educated. However, there are no studies focusing on the couple-education-fertility nexus among couples who achieved only basic educational attainment, even though resource pooling theory predicts differences in family formation by couples’ joint
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Editorial on the Special Issue “The identification of causal mechanisms in demographic research” Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Johannes Huinink,Josef Brüderl
Explaining demographic behaviour and population change means identifying the causal mechanisms which “drive” them over time. Based on theoretical modelling and guided by empirical fi ndings in prior studies, demographic and social research pursues the improvement of knowledge about those mechanisms and the relationships between the involved factors. In demography, as in the social sciences in general
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What You Need to Know When Estimating Impact Functions with Panel Data for Demographic Research Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Volker Ludwig,Josef Brüderl
The estimation of impact functions – that is the time-varying causal effect of a dichotomous treatment (e.g., marriage, divorce, parenthood) on outcomes (e.g., earnings, well-being, health) – has become a standard procedure in demographic applications. The basic methodology of estimating impact functions with panel data and fixed-effects regressions is now widely known. However, many researchers may
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Pronatalist Policies and Fertility in Russia: Estimating Tempo and Quantum Effects Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Asiya Validova
This paper examines the family policy reforms of 2007 in Russia that were aimed explicitly at encouraging second and higher-order births, and analyses their impact on fertility. The existing empirical findings about population policy interventions in transition economies are inconclusive, while the most common argument states that policies based on material incentives are insufficient to significantly
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Fertility of Roma Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Laura Szabó,Igor Kiss,Branislav Šprocha,Zsolt Spéder
We analyse Roma fertility in four neighbouring countries in Central and Eastern Europe with a large Roma minority: in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. The sources of data are the respective national population censuses from 2011. Fertility is measured at the birth cohort level as the average number of children ever born. We make an international comparison of the fertility of Roma and non-Roma
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With Age Comes …? An Examination of Gendered Differences in the Resource Advantages Associated with Parental Age in Norway Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Wendy Sigle,Øystein Kravdal
Using high-quality register data, this paper constructs an empirical portrait of older parenthood in contemporary Norway and explores gender differences in the extent to which older parents are better-resourced parents. Like most family issues, academic and policy discussions of older parenthood have tended to focus on the experiences of women. Although motherhood at older ages was not uncommon in
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Analysing Transitions in Intimate Relationships with Panel Data Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Michael Feldhaus,Richard Preetz
Panel data on intimate relationships are becoming increasingly available, enabling a closer examination and deeper understanding of why and how they develop over time. The aim of this review is to illustrate to what extent demographic research has made progress in understanding the dynamics of intimate relationships by examining panel data. We focus on hypotheses about key transitions throughout the
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Is There Evidence of Gender Preference for Offspring in France? Examining the Predilections of Native Women and Immigrant Women from Asia and Africa Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Sehar Ezdi,Sabrina Pastorelli
This paper investigates gender preferences for offspring within the native French population and among immigrants from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey and Vietnam-Cambodia-Laos in France by combining the Family and Housing Survey (2011) and the Trajectories and Origins Survey (2008). In so doing, it is the first paper to examine the persistence (or lack thereof) of gender preferences among
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Causal Modelling in Fertility Research: A Review of the Literature and an Application to a Parental Leave Policy Reform Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Michaela Kreyenfeld
This paper reviews empirical studies that have examined the causal determinants of fertility behaviour. In particular, we compare the approaches adopted in the different disciplines to improve our understanding of how birth dynamics are influenced by changes in female employment and changes in family policies. The wide array of panel data that have become available in recent years provide great potential
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On the Relationship between Fertility, Development and Gender Equality: A Comparison of Western and MENA Countries Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Zafer Buyukkececi,Henriette Engelhardt
The changing macro-level relationship between fertility and development (i.e., the standard of living, health and education) from negative to positive for the most advanced economies has received considerable attention recently. Using aggregate data, we compare the relationship between fertility and development in Western countries with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where fertility
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The Association between Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes and Cohort Fertility: Evidence from Brazil Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Camila Ferreira Soares,Everton Emanuel Campos de Lima
Brazil’s Bolsa Família Programme (BFP) aims to combat poverty and social inequalities through monetary transfers to families. A much-discussed indirect effect of the programme was its correlation to the fertility of the beneficiary families. In this paper, we use a cohort fertility approach with parity progression ratios that differs from existing literature, which mainly used period fertility measures
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Panel Data in Research on Mobility and Migration: A Review of Recent Advances Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Sergi Vidal,Philipp M. Lersch
Panel data has become the gold standard for causal assessments of complex human behaviour in quantitative social science. The objective of this review is to examine and discuss how panel data and related methods contribute to the identification of causal relationships in spatial mobility research. We illustrate this by providing a succinct overview of recent progress in spatial mobility research, drawing
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Family Research and Demographic Analysis (FReDA): Evolution, Framework, Objectives, and Design of “The German Family-Demographic Panel Study” Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Norbert F. Schneider,Martin Bujard,Christof Wolf,Tobias Gummer,Karsten Hank,Franz J. Neyer
This article introduces the evolution, framework, objectives, and design of the new data infrastructure “FReDA – The German Family-Demographic Panel Study”, which has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2020. FReDA is rooted in the Generation and Gender Survey (GGS) and the German Family Panel (pairfam). FReDA was initiated to facilitate research on family
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Does Marriage Increase Couples’ Life Satisfaction? Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 Alexander Gattig,Lara Minkus
Many contemporary studies find that married couples are more satisfied with life than unmarried people. However, whether marriage makes people more satisfied with life or whether more satisfied couples are more likely to marry remains a debated question. We reassess this relationship with panel data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) and extend previous analyses by adding individual trajectories
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The Interplay of Having an Abortion, Relationship Satisfaction, and Union Dissolution Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-26 Kristin Hajek
This study researches the associations between having an abortion, relationship satisfaction, and union dissolution. Empirical evidence on this topic is scarce, and there is a pronounced lack of studies analysing longitudinal data: Most previous studies have used data from women recruited from abortion clinics who are about to undergo an abortion, and therefore do not incorporate a prospective measure
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Approaches and Methods for Causal Analysis of Panel Data in the Area of Morbidity and Mortality Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Rasmus Hoffmann,Gabriele Doblhammer
We aim to give an overview of the state of the art of causal analysis of demographic issues related to morbidity and mortality. We will systematically introduce strategies to identify causal mechanisms, which are inherently linked to panel data from observational surveys and population registers. We will focus on health and mortality, and on the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causation
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Is Early Partnership Formation Instrumental for Fertility in Germany? Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Okka Zimmermann
Using panel data from childless respondents of the German Family Panel (pairfam, n=3,802 respondents), this paper investigates whether fertility orientations (biographical orientations with respect to fertility) influence the risk of different partnership transitions among German men and women over the age of 18 (for n=14,572 observation periods between two panel waves). Significant influences are
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Why the Standard TFR gives a Misleading Impression of the Fertility of Foreign Women: Insights from Switzerland Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Marion Burkimsher,Clémentine Rossier,Philippe Wanner
Since 1971 the Swiss Federal Statistical Office has published annual fertility data split by nationality (Swiss/foreign). These indicate that the TFR for women of foreign nationality has been 0.5 children higher than for Swiss women for most of the period since 1991. However, statistics from household registration (STATPOP) and the Families and Generations Surveys (FGS) in 2013 and 2018 indicate that
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Deteriorating Employment and Marriage Decline in Japan Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Shigeki Matsuda,Takayuki Sasaki
As is the case in Western countries, more Japanese are marrying later or remaining unmarried and are postponing childbearing or staying childless. Previous studies revealed that those individuals who were unable to secure regular employment due to the serious recession between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s, labelled a “lost generation,” had a very low marriage rate. But what about subsequent cohorts
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Linking Neighbors’ Fertility: Third Births in Norwegian Neighborhoods Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Janna Bergsvik
Geographical variations in fertility and the diffusion of fertility across space and social networks are central topics in demographic research. Less is known, however, about the role of neighborhoods and neighbors with regard to geographical variations in fertility. This paper investigates spatial variations in family size by analyzing third births in a neighborhood context. Using unique geo-data
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Lone Mothers' Employment Trajectories: A Longitudinal Mixed-method Study Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Emanuela Struffolino, Laura Bernardi, Ornella Larenza
Using a mixed-method design, this study explores the heterogeneity in employment trajectories before and after the transition to lone parenthood in Switzerland. First, we perform sequence and cluster analysis on data from the Swiss Household panel to identify typical employment trajectories around the transition to lone parenthood, and then estimate their association with individual and household characteristics
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The Role of Internal Migration as a Driver of Regional Population Change in Europe Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Philip Rees, Nikola Sander
Europe has experienced a growing divergence of trends in population growth and age structure across cities and regions. A key driver of this divergence is internal migration, which also drives disparities in labour markets and economic development. This special issue focuses on the role of internal migration as a driver of regional population change in Europe, and relates current research to the early
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Population Change and International and Internal Migration in Italy, 2002-2017: Ravenstein Revisited Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Federico Benassi, Corrado Bonifazi, Frank Heins, Francesca Licari, Enrico Tucci
In 1885, Ravenstein formulated his “laws” of migration, based on the experience of the British Isles. In a further 1889 paper, he extended his analysis as a tour d’horizon of migration and population changes in other nations, including Italy. Even if social and economic processes including globalisation and rising mobility have changed the world since then, Ravenstein’s “laws” remain a point of reference
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Survey Responses on Desired Fertility in Patriarchal Societies: Community Norms vs. Individual Views Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Konstantin Kazenin,Vladimir Kozlov
The paper deals with a problem regularly faced by survey studies of patriarchal communities, i.e. communities with a high authority of senior generations and a low level of women’s autonomy. In such communities, female respondents might give untruthful answers to survey questions in order to fit norms which are treated as obligatory or highly desirable in the community. The situation causes a "community
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The Process of Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: Updating Ravenstein and the Step-Migration Hypothesis Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Joseph Day
Since their publication in 1885 and 1889 respectively, Ravenstein’s laws of migration – which have since been summarised as eleven broad rules – have achieved something approaching universal acceptance (Ravenstein 1885, 1889). While most of these laws have been tested and retested using data drawn from a range of countries and time periods – invariably reconfirming the status of his hypotheses as “laws”
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Age-specific Migration in Regional Centres and Peripheral Areas of Russia Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Liliya Karachurina,Nikita Mkrtchyan
Ravenstein, writing in 19th century papers, observed that migration varied with the life course. However, he did not investigate this variation in detail, as the necessary data were not then available. Age-specific migration has been a focus for researchers of migration in the 20th and 21st centuries. Building on this research, the current paper explores age-specific migration in Russia focussing on
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Unregistered Births of Adolescent Mothers in Turkey: Invisible Children Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-05-13 Faruk Keskin,Alanur Çavlin
This study examines birth registration for children of adolescent mothers based on family and citizenship concepts, and discusses the negotiation of registration practices between state and family in Turkey. The study is based on two data sources: official Turkish birth statistics from January 2009 to December 2015, and the Turkish Demographic and Health Survey from 2013 (TDHS-2013). We used TDHS-2013
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Ravenstein Revisited: The Analysis of Migration, Then and Now Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-05-07 Philip Rees,Nik Lomax
In 1876, 1885 and 1889, Ernst Ravenstein, an Anglo-German geographer, published papers on internal and international migration in Britain, Europe and North America. He generalized his findings as “laws of migration”, which have informed subsequent migration research. This paper aims to compare Ravenstein’s approach to investigating migration with how researchers have studied the phenomenon more recently
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Population and Economic Cycles in the Main Spanish Urban Areas: The Migratory Component Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-21 Fernando Gil-Alonso,Jenniffer Thiers-Quintana
The paper aims to analyse how the different economic phases that Spain has experienced in the first two decades of the 21st century (expansion, recession, and recovery) have influenced population stocks and migratory flows in the five largest metropolitan areas defined as Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Spain: Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Seville and Valencia. Using Padrón Continuo (municipal registers)
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How Well Can the Migration Component of Regional Population Change be Predicted? A Machine Learning Approach Applied to German Municipalities Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Hannes Weber
For several decades, demographic forecasts had predicted that the majority of Germany’s cities and rural areas would experience population decline in the early 21st century. Instead, recent trends show a growing population size in three out of every four German districts. As a result, there are currently severe shortages of housing and childcare in regions that were projected to decline but have instead
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From Living Apart to Living Together: Do Children Born before the Current Partnership Matter? Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-03-31 Roselinde Van der Wiel,Clara H. Mulder,Helga A.G. De Valk
This study examines the association between having children born before the current partnership and women’s and men’s likelihood of transitioning from living apart together (LAT) to co-residing. LAT partnerships are common among individuals with pre-partnership children, but have so far been under-researched. Our study not only focuses on those in LAT relations, but also takes the different pathways
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The Impact of Internal Migration on the Spatial Distribution of Population in Germany over the Period 1991-2017 Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Nico Stawarz,Nikola Sander
In 1885 and 1889 Ravenstein published two seminal papers on the role of migration in changing population distribution. This article analyses the importance of internal migration for shaping the spatial population distribution of Germany in the last three decades. We use a time-series dataset of annual inter-county migration flows from the German population register for the years 1991 to 2017. Population
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Updating Ravenstein: Internal Migration as a Driver of Regional Population Change in the Wider South East of England Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Tony Champion
Key among Ravenstein’s “laws”, derived from extensive analysis of mid-19th century migration patterns in the British Isles, are that the majority of migrants go only a short distance and that migration proceeds stepwise as a sequence of localised population shifts towards the principal centres of commerce and industry. This paper tests these two laws in the 21st century context of counterurbanisation
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Remittance Behaviour of Intra-EU Migrants – Evidence from Hungary Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-03-04 László Kajdi,Anna Sára Ligeti
After the eastern expansion of the European Union (EU), a large number of emigrants left their home countries to work in economically better developed western member states. Hungary followed this EU emigration trend with a certain time lag. However, the rising number of emigrants caused structural problems in the domestic labour market. A comprehensive examination of intra-EU remittances as one of
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Linked Lives across Borders: Economic Remittances to Ageing Parents in Romania Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-02-18 Ionuț Földes
Economic support is widespread among multigenerational Romanian family units separated by national borders and plays an important role for non-migrating family members. From a political economy perspective, remittances are characteristic of such long-term kin networks, which in turn are shaped by socio-structural contexts. This study aims to analyse transfers of remittances in cash and in kind from
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Gender Role Attitudes in Germany, 1982-2016: An Age-Period-Cohort (APC) Analysis Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-02-03 Daniel Lois
The present study investigates the change of gender role attitudes in Germany between 1982 and 2016. Nine waves of the German General Social Survey are used (N = 26,389). In contrast to previous trend studies, which largely ignore age effects, a mechanism-based age-period-cohort model (Winship/Harding 2008) is applied. It becomes clear that age, period and cohort independently have an impact on gender
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German Churches in Times of Demographic Change and Declining Affiliation: A Projection to 2060 Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-01-22 David Gutmann,Fabian Peters
The problem of declining membership in Germany’s churches has been apparent for almost half a century. However, few scientific studies have investigated the respective influences of demographic and church-specific phenomena, as well as the potential impact if present trends continue. To answer these questions, we use a cohort component model and project the membership of each German Catholic diocese
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The Impact of Dementia and Extremity Injuries on the Plasticity of Long-term Care Demand: An Analysis of Counterfactual Projection Scenarios Based on German Health Insurance Routine Data Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Alexander Barth
Although demand for long-term care (LTC) in Germany is expected to increase over the coming decades, the LTC sector will struggle to provide sufficient capacity. Evaluating the impact of different risk factors on future LTC demand is necessary in order to make informed policy decisions. With regard to LTC need, dementia and lower extremity injuries (LEI) are common risk factors. Both are used to demonstrate
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Impact of Internal Migration on Population Redistribution in Europe: Urbanisation, Counterurbanisation or Spatial Equilibrium? Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Francisco Rowe,Martin Bell,Aude Bernard,Elin Charles-Edwards,Philipp Ueffing
The classical foundations of migration research date from the 1880s with Ravenstein’s “Laws of migration”, which represent the first comparative analyses of internal migration. While his observations remain largely valid, the ensuing century has seen considerable progress in data collection practices and methods of analysis, which in turn has permitted theoretical advances in understanding the role
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Policy-based Population Projections for the European Union: A Complementary Approach Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-10-28 Philip Cafaro,Patrícia Dérer
We present new population projections out to 2100 for the countries of the European Union and for the EU as a whole under a wide range of fertility and migration scenarios. As policy-based projections rather than forecasts, they aspire not to maximize predictive success regarding future demographic developments, but to accurately show the impact of different migration and socio-economic policy choices
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Understanding the Spatial Trajectories of Minority Groups: An Approach that Examines their Demographic, Cultural and Socio-economic Characteristics Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-10-07 Philip Sapiro
Population researchers have contributed to the debate on minority group distribution and disadvantage and social cohesion by providing objective analysis. A plethora of new distribution measurement techniques have been presented in recent years, but they have not provided sufficient explanatory power of underlying trajectories to inform ongoing political debate. Indeed, a focus on trying to summarise
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Residential Location Choices of Couples Considering both Partners’ Residential Biographies and Family Ties Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-09-11 Janna Albrecht,Lisa Döring,Christian Holz-Rau,Joachim Scheiner
We investigate couples’ residential decisions by considering variables capturing elements of both partners’ residential biographies and family ties. We focus on the family formation stage because decisions made in this stage are rather long-term. We are particularly interested in the hometown as individuals have spent a great amount of time and an important life phase there. Our research questions
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Expectations about Fertility and Field of Study among Adolescents: A Case of Self-selection? Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-08-21 Micha G. Keijer,Aart C. Liefbroer,Ineke Nagel
In recent studies on the association between education and fertility, increased attention has been paid to the field of study. Women who studied in traditionally more “feminine” fields, like care, teaching, and health, were found to have their children earlier and to have more children than other women. A point of debate in this literature is on the causal direction of this relationship. Does the field
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Why Do Lone Mothers Fare Worse than Lone Fathers? Lone Parenthood and Welfare Benefit Receipt in Germany Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-16 Esther Geisler,Michaela Kreyenfeld
This article uses data from the German microcensuses of 2007 and 2012 to examine gender differences in welfare reliance among lone parents. Binary logistic regression was employed as the method of analysis. We show that the risk of welfare benefit receipt is lower among lone fathers than lone mothers. We also find that these gender differences can be partially explained by the socio-economic characteristics
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Editorial on the Special Issue “New Aspects on Migrant Populations in Europe: Norms, Attitudes and Intentions in Fertility and Family Planning” Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Nadja Milewski,Eleonora Mussino
This paper reviews the most recent literature on the fertility of migrant populations in Europe. In a systematic review of 21 peer-reviewed journals, we found that the literature has focused almost exclusively on actual behaviours related to the quantum and timing of births; it primarily investigates the determinants of demographic behaviour related to the structural integration of migrants. Previous
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Fertility Postponement and Regional Patterns of Dispersion in Age at First Birth: Descriptive Findings and Interpretations Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-04-15 Mathías Nathan,Ignacio Pardo
Previous studies have documented an increasing heterogeneity in first-birth timing in countries experiencing the postponement transition. Sobotka (2004), for instance, showed a rising dispersion in age at first birth in developed countries, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, where the timing polarisation between more and less advantaged women is most evident. However, these studies
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Women’s Attitudes toward Assisted Reproductive Technologies – A Pilot Study among Migrant Minorities and Non-migrants in Germany Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-04-10 Sonja Haug,Nadja Milewski
This study examines attitudes toward assisted reproductive technologies (ART) among immigrant women and non-migrants in Germany. The social relevance of ART is increasing in Western countries due to overall low birth rates, a high rate of childlessness, and a gap between the desired and the actual numbers of children. Previous literature has been scarce, however, on attitudes toward ART, and immigrant
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Attitudes toward Abortion for Medical and Non-medical Reasons among the Turkish Second Generation in Europe – The Role of the Family and Societal Contexts Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-03-18 Nadja Milewski,Sarah Carol
This paper studies attitudes toward abortion among the second generation of Turkish migrants and their native counterparts in six western and northern European countries. We focus on Turkish migrants because they not only constitute one of the largest immigrant groups, but are also hypothesised to be culturally and demographically very distinctive from the native group. We used data from the project
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Fertility Intentions and Views on Gender Roles: Russian Women in Estonia from an Origin-destination Perspective Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-02-25 Allan Puur,Hanna Vseviov,Liili Abuladze
In this article we investigate fertility intentions of Russian women in Estonia from an origin-destination perspective. Russian migrants to Estonia and their descendants are compared with women in the sending and host countries in order to identify similarities and differences in intended transitions to first, second and third births. The study is based on the Estonian and Russian Generations and Gender
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The Same Fertility Ideals as in the Country of Origin? A Study of the Personal Ideal Family Size among Immigrant Women in Italy Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-02-07 Eleonora Mussino,Livia Elisa Ortensi
The role of the personal ideal family size for international migrants has rarely been studied in the current debate on fertility and migration in the European context. It is not known to which extent the reduction of fertility observed among immigrants who settle in a country where fertility is lower than in their country of origin is the result of a change in fertility norms among those immigrants
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Fertility Intentions across Immigrant Generations in Sweden. Do Patterns of Adaptation Differ by Gender and Origin? Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-02-05 Erik Carlsson
In being representative of individuals’ demographic value orientations, fertility preferences provide information about immigrants’ adaptation to family formation patterns in the destination country at a deeper, ideational level than actual fertility does. Using data from Wave 1 of the Swedish GGS from 2012/2013 (n=3,932), this study compares the first, 1.5, and second generations with either one or
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Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Fertility: The Model of Dyadic Pathways Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2019-02-05 Uta Brehm,Norbert F. Schneider
In this theoretical contribution, we propose a comprehensive and integrative heuristic model to explain fertility, the Model of Dyadic Pathways (MDP). We show how existing models such as the Theory of Planned Behaviour often do not withstand empirical challenges, especially not individual self-reports in qualitative studies. Furthermore, existing models vary in their premises and foci, resulting in
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Predicting the Timing of Social Transitions from Personal, Social and Socio-Economic Resources of German Adolescents Comparative Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2018-12-12 Jana Gläßer,Wolfgang Lauterbach,Fred Berger
Social transitions are characterized by an increased heterogeneity in Western societies. Following the life course perspective, individual agency becomes central in shaping one’s life course. This article examines social transitions of adolescents using individual resource theory to explain differences of the timing of five transitions in partnership and family formation: the first sexual experience