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Between 2001 and 2008 Australia’s total fertility increased from 1.73 to 1.96. This period also saw changes to family …. This paper analyses individual-level fertility, using data from a large-scale longitudinal survey and focusing on the …. The effects of education, income, occupation, marital status, age and parity are significant. …
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the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa to argue that: 1) long-term presence and …
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, particularly for some segments of the population. Fertility trends in Slovenia, as seen in the total fertility rate, have not …. Since then, the total fertility rate has been increasing slightly. Postponement in childbearing began with cohorts born … after 1960. In today’s Slovenian society, on average young women achieve higher education than men, and they perceive …
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Spain’s total fertility rate has more than halved since 1975, when it was 2.8, to the present 1.3 (the lowest rate on … hindering any sustained recovery of fertility. Cohort fertility, in turn, has declined uninterruptedly since the 1941 cohort … substantially to falling fertility. Underlying this decrease is the profound cultural, social, and economic change that has raised …
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consequences of education level on differences in fertility patterns. The paper will also provide some indication of aspects that …Behind a stable and relatively high fertility level in Norway during the 1990s we find increasing differences in the … pattern of fertility both in regard to the timing of the first childbirth and number of children born. In this paper, data …
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Rhine which hamper or foster childbearing in cohabiting unions. Using data from the French and German Family and Fertility …
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Below replacement fertility in many countries has lead to a renewed public interest in policies that may encourage … young people to have more children. The Nordic countries are sometimes in focus in this respect, as their fertility rates … is a connection between generous public policies that facilitate childbearing and employment, and fertility. Using Norway …
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European countries in which mothers are encouraged to remain in the labour market have higher fertility levels. It is … difficult, however, to link specific policies to fertility increases. We hypothesize that policy changes do not affect fertility …
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question: Should governments in Europe push much more aggressively for gender equality to raise fertility? The four debaters …
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raise fertility. The paper presents a threefold “no†to this proposal. It takes issue with the goal of raising fertility …, arguing that the claims that fertility must be increased are based on myths. It rejects a more aggressive pursuit of gender … for fertility purposes, stating that this narrows the realm of gender equality. The paper is based on a debate held at the …
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