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Scheidung in Ost- und Westdeutschland: der Einfluss der Frauenerwerbstätigkeit auf die Ehestabilität

Böttcher, Karin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Dieser Beitrag vergleicht die Ehestabilität ost- und westdeutscher Frauen vor der Wiedervereinigung im Jahr 1990. Es wird untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß sich die Frauen beider Länder in Bezug auf das Risiko, eine erste Scheidung zu erfahren, unterschieden haben und auf welche Faktoren diese...

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Woman’s employment and union disruption in a changing socio-economic context: the case of Russia

Muszynska, Magdalena M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Drawing on data from new Russian retrospective surveys, this study examines the relationship between women’s employment … within the two periods, the risk of union dissolution was similar among women who worked and women who did not work. In the … transition period, however, differences in the dissolution risk among women existed and were related to the characteristics of …

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Transfers, consumption and income over the lifecycle in Germany

Kluge, Fanny A. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

This paper seeks to quantify all public and private interage monetary flows in Germany applying the National Transfer Account method. Germany's lifecycle deficit is shaped by long periods spent in education, early retirement, and low labor force participation rates among the older work force,...

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Assessment of cross-sectional and longitudinal components of a difference with an algorithm of contour replacement

Jdanov, Dmitri A.; Shkolnikov, Vladimir M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

This study proposes a new decomposition method which permits a difference in an aggregate measure at a final time point to be split into additive components corresponding to the initial differences in the event-rates of the measure and differences in trends in these underlying event-rates. The...

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Ancient statistics and the rise of demography: a historiography of demographic debate on Roman Italy

Hin, Saskia C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

At the 70th 'anniversary' of Münzer’s death, ancient history ‘celebrates’ a more than twice long history of debate on population matters in the Roman Republic and early Empire. More than 170 years of discussion have hitherto not led to any conclusive answer on the basic question against...

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Regional hot spots of exceptional longevity in Germany

Scholz, Rembrandt D.; Klüsener, Sebastian - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

In their contributions to the debate on exceptional longevity, several scholars have noted the existence of spatial hot spots, or areas with a high concentration of individuals who have survived to very high ages (e.g. Sardinia in Italy or Okinawa in Japan). However, most of these studies were...

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The Patriarchy Index: a comparative study of power relations across historic Europe

Gruber, Siegfried; Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

This paper stands at the confluence of three streams of historical social science analysis: the sociological study of power relations within the family, the regional demography of historical Europe, and the study of spatial patterning of historical family forms in Europe. It is a preliminary...

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Socioeconomic differences in the unemployment and fertility nexus: a comparison of Denmark and Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

unemployment among highly educated women and men, but not among their less educated counterparts. …

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A golden age before serfdom? The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the 17th-19th centuries

Baten, Jörg; Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

Can the 16th and early 17th centuries in Poland-Lithuania and some other east-central European countries be characterized as a “Golden Age” in human capital? We trace the development of a specific human capital indicator during this period: numeracy. We draw upon new evidence for Poland and...

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Measuring the balance of government intervention on forward and backward family transfers using NTA estimates: the modified Lee Arrows

Patxot, Concepció; Renteria, Elisenda; Romero, Miguel … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

In this paper we propose a way to measure the degree of government intervention on forward –from parents to children– and backward –from adult children to elderly parents– intergenerational family transfers (IFT). We carry out a discussion about the possibility of using Generational...

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