This volume explores the relationship between economic pressures and demographic patterns. It uses data from industrialized countries to analyze both patterns of family formation and economic factors such as the distribution of resources, governmental policy and women's labour force participation.

Antecedents The development of labour supply over the next fifteen years has its roots firmly implanted in the past. This dynamic characteristic of labour supply changes extends to labour force participation rates as well as to changes in labour supply attributable to purely demographic changes,...