1 APR 2014
This paper coauthored by Alexia Prskawetz offers for the first time a European comparative study on the effect of changes in the age structure in the economy based on National Transfer Accounts data.
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28 MAR 2014
Guy Abel and Nikola Sander quantify the global flow of people for the first time. Their findings were published in Science on March 28. For more details and free online access to the article, visit www.global-migration.info.
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26 MAR 2014
Wolfgang Lutz describes in short how demographic dynamics contribute to the understanding of changes and trends in human capital, the main challenges in this regard for Latin America, and the role of migration.
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21 MAR 2014
This study by Maria Rita Testa and colleagues examined the effect of partners' discrepant child-timing intentions on reproductive behavior. In a context of widespread fertility control, like Italy, one partner’s intentions not to have a child is not always sufficient to prevent a birth especially if the two-child family has not been reached yet.
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19 MAR 2014
This is the introduction to the special feature "Education and Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters" in Ecology and Society and discusses the influence of education on risk perception, skills and knowledge.
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17 MAR 2014
This study by Caroline Berghammer examines how the educational level of parents with children below age six affects their work arrangements. The findings show converging trends between different educational groups.
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14 MAR 2014
In this paper, Samir KC and Wolfgang Lutz translate 5 narratives as defined by the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways into 5 alternative demographic scenarios using projections for 171 countries up to 2100.
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12 MAR 2014
Interviewed by the business magazine "Trend" of the Swiss Radio SRF Wolfgang Lutz describes why the world population will decrease and what consequences this implies for the future.
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10 MAR 2014
Sergei Scherbov describes in short how to rethink age and aging, explains the concepts of prospective age, prospective old age dependency ratio and prospective mean age, and the importance for public policies.
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7 MAR 2014
This study examines the effect of secondary education on cognitive performance toward the end of working age, by exploiting the exogenous variation in years of schooling arising from compulsory schooling reforms implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s.
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