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Contains presentations of population experts at the 1999 European Population Conference, which convened in The Hague (The Netherlands) from 30 August to 3 September.

This work portrays a comparison of changes in family formation and fertility behaviour between Belgium and The Netherlands, which aims to give us more insight in the question of whether there is one common transition process.

Marriage is dependent on the structure of marriage markets, and marriage patterns have consequences for social inequality.

THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF FERTILITY AND THE FAMILY IN EUROPE The countries of southern Europe have begun to reduce conjugal fertility at a later date compared to most other nations in the west.

Information on future mortality trends is essential for population forecasts, public health policy, actuarial studies, and many other purposes.

This volume aims to describe the similarities and differences in the timing and kind of transition among the post-war cohorts in Austria, Britain, Flanders (Belgium), France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Spain.

THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF FERTILITY AND THE FAMILY IN EUROPE The countries of southern Europe have begun to reduce conjugal fertility at a later date compared to most other nations in the west.

This two-volume work explores social cohesion and the demographic challenges of low birth rates and population aging.

This work covers various important issues in life table construction and use. It. includes a non-technical overview, compares various methods of decomposing the difference in life expectancies, discusses the finding of suitable indicators and models, and deals with age, period, and cohort effects in mortality.

The book includes various demographic and pension scenarios for pension costs in the coming decades for Austria, Canada, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Sweden.

It presents results of a scenario study on future developments in demand and supply of elderly care services for a selected number of European countries, summarizing an extensive study on the impact of ageing populations on the socio-medical system conducted by the authors on behalf of the European Population Committee of the Council of Europe.

"This is a tour de force in cohort fertility analysis, a deep and powerful piece of work. It is a striking demonstration of the force of really detailed empirical analysis of excellent and comprehensive data, with the data looked at from every angle and judiciously extrapolated into the future.

Deals with the background to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), its preparation, proceedings, and contents. This monograph evaluates its results and recommendations by comparing the ICPD Action Programme with scientific literature.

This two-volume work explores social cohesion and the demographic challenges of low birth rates and population aging.

This volume explores the links between women's employment and fertility in Norway and Switzerland. The discussion focuses on four main areas: living standards, family policies, labour market structures, and social norms.

Authors, scholars and scientists whose mother tongue is not one of the major languages of international communication are seriously disadvantaged.

It is published by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demo graphic Institute (NIDI, The Hague) together with the Flemish Population and Family Study Centre (CBGS, Brussels), with the purpose to inform an international audience on results of demographic research in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Authors, scholars and scientists whose mother tongue is not one of the major languages of international communication are seriously disadvantaged.