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Childbearing Patterns of Foreign Women in a New Immigration Country: The Case of SpainMarta Roig Vila, Teresa Castro MartínSpain, a country of emigration during centuries, has become a country of immigration in the last twenty years -the foreign population increased ...

Population and Environment in Northern Italy during the Sixteenth Century Guido Alfani No general consensus has been reached, as yet, on how to interpret sixteenth century Italian demographic dynamics. Such divergences reflect different convictions about the relationship between ...

The Demography of South Asia from the 1950s to the 2000s. A Summary of Changes and a Statistical AssessmentJacques VéronThe countries of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) cover less than 4% of ...

Between Socially-Instituted Parental Relationships and Elective Ones: a Retrospective Analysis of Parent Figures in France from 1930 to 1965É. Lelièvre, G. Vivier, C. Tichit Using data from the Biographie et entourage survey conducted by INED in 2001 on 2,830 inhabitants ...

Recent Demographic Developments in France: Life Expectancy Still RisingFrance PriouxThe population of metropolitan France (mainland + Corsica) on 1 January 2008 is estimated at 61.88 million. The natural increase in 2007 was a still-robust 270,000, despite a moderate decline in ...

Comparing Qualitative Harmonic Analysis and Optimal Matching. An Exploratory Study of Occupational Trajectories Nicolas Robette, Nicolas Thibault Event history surveys provide a means to analyse large numbers of complete individual occupational trajectories. A variety of statistical methods have been developed ...

The Demography of East and Southeast Asia from the 1950s to the 2000s. A Summary of Changes and a Statistical AssessmentI. Attané, M. Barbieri With 2.1 billion inhabitants, the region of East and Southeast Asia is home to one-third of ...

Increased Women’s Labour Force Participation in Europe: Progress in the Work-Life Balance or Polarization of Behaviours? Olivier ThévenonThis paper analyses trends in women’s labour market situations between 1992 and 2005 using data from the European Labour Force Surveys (EU-LFS). These ...

Recent Demographic Developments in France: Tenth Anniversary of the PACS Civil Partnership, and Over a Million Contracting PartiesFrance Prioux, Magali MazuyThe population of metropolitan France (mainland and Corsica) on 1 January 2009 was estimated at 63.2 million. Natural growth ...