Search Results - subject:"educational differences"

Education and intended number of children in Germany, Moldova and Norway : an international comparison using FReDA and GGS-II-data

Krapf, Sandra; Buber-Ennser, Isabella; Bujard, Martin - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 48 (2023), pp. 589-628

In this study, we compare the intended number of children in Germany, Moldova and Norway in 2020 and 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a first step, we compare the intended number of children (including children born) in the newly available Generations and Gender Survey round 2 (GGS-II) and...

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Births to single mothers: Age- and education-related changes in Poland between 1985 and 2010

Brzozowska, Zuzanna - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 52, pp. 1445-1462

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Age-specific fertility by educational level in the Finnish male cohort born 1940â€’1950

Nisén, Jessica; Martikainen, Pekka; Silventoinen, Karri; … - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 5, pp. 119-136

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The Cyclicality of Search Intensity in a Competitive Search Model

Gomme, Paul; Lkhagvasuren, Damba - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2013

Shimer's puzzle is that the textbook Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model exhibits fluctuations in labor market variables that are an order of magnitude too small. Introducing search effort of the unemployed brings the model's predictions for these fluctuations very close to those seen in the...

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Was falling fertility in the communist Poland driven by changes in women’s education?

Brzozowska, Zuzanna - Instytut Statystyki i Demografii, Szkoła Główna … - 2013

During the communist period, Poland experienced an educational revolution: millions of people moved up from primary to lower- und upper-secondary education. At the same time, completed fertility dropped substantially from 2.48 in the 1932 cohort to 2.22 for women born in 1962. This article...

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Things change: Womenâ€™s and menâ€™s marital disruption dynamics in Italy during a time of social transformations, 1970-2003

Salvini, Silvana; Vignoli, Daniele - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 5, pp. 145-174

We study womenâ€™s and menâ€™s marital disruption in Italy between 1970 and 2003. By applying an event-history analysis to the 2003 Italian variant of the Generations and Gender Survey we found that the spread of marital disruption started among middle-highly educated women. Then in...

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The Cyclicality of Search Intensity in a Competitive Search Model

Gomme, Paul; Lkhagvasuren, Damba - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2011

Reasonably calibrated versions of the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model of unemployment underpredict, by a wide margin, the volatility of vacancies, unemployment, and the vacancies-unemployment ratio - variables at the heart of this model. These shortcomings motivate two...

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Rudiments of recent fertility decline in Hungary

Spéder, Zsolt - In: Demographic Research 15 (2006) 8, pp. 253-288

Our study describes fundamental changes in childbearing behavior in Hungary. It documents current postponement of entry into motherhood (first birth) and uncovers signs of delay in second birth. We place the behavioral modifications into historical time and reveal the basic role of the...

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Educational Differences in Completed Fertility: A Behavioral Genetic Study of Finnish Male and Female Twins

Nisén, Jessica; Martikainen, Pekka; Kaprio, Jaakko; … - In: Demography 50 (2013) 4, pp. 1399-1420

Despite the large body of research on educational differences in fertility, how genetic and environmental influences … may contribute to educational differences in completed fertility is not well understood. This study examines the … role in the process through which educational differences in completed fertility are formed. Copyright Population …

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Educational differences in disability-free life expectancy: a comparative study of long-standing activity limitation in eight European countries

Mäki, Netta; Martikainen, Pekka; Eikemo, Terje; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 94 (2013) C, pp. 1-8

deficiencies, we estimated educational differences in disability-free life expectancy for eight countries from all parts of Europe … sex-specific educational differences in disability-free life expectancy between the ages of 30 and 79 years using the …-free life expectancy were directly related to the level of education, but the educational differences were much greater in the …

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