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Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

How long do older Americans work?

March 14, 2021April 2, 2018 Christian Dudel and Mikko Myrskylä
Americas, Old age, Welfare, Work

Christian Dudel and Mikko Myrskylä study how the length of working life has developed in the U.S. since the early 1990s. While overall life expectancy has increased, there has been … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Retirement timing and grandparenthood in Sweden

March 8, 2021February 19, 2018 Linda Kridahl
Europe, Old age, Welfare, Work

In most Western European countries, retiring and entering grandparenthood are relatively parallel events for most individuals, with grandparenthood often occurring a few years before retirement (Leopold and Lechner, 2015).Does being … Read more

Environment and development

Global population, development aspirations and fallacies

March 8, 2021February 5, 2018 George Martine
Demography, population, Welfare

The debate in this forum between Lam (2017) and Grossman (2017) concerning the outlook for the world’s next four billion people is opportune. Both essays highlight critical issues and make … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

30 years of experience of the two-child policy in Yicheng, China

March 8, 2021January 3, 2018 Yu Qin and Fei Wang
Asia, Children, Family, Fertility, Welfare

More and more countries have been adopting population policies to increase birth rates, in order to deal with the growing challenges of aging (United Nations 2013). Following the recent trend, … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Parental leave uptake among migrant and native mothers in Belgium

March 7, 2021December 11, 2017 Tine Kil, Jonas Wood and Karel Neels
Children, Europe, Welfare, Women, Work

Family policies such as parental leave schemes increasingly support the work-family balance. Although labour force participation has increased in recent decades among mothers in majority populations, maternal employment levels and … Read more

Environment and development

The world in which the next 4 billion people will live

March 7, 2021November 13, 2017 Richard Grossman
population, Welfare

I was pleased to read Professor David Lam’s N-IUSSP essay “The world’s next 4 billion people will differ from the previous 4 billion” (Lam 2017). He outlines past, present and … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Fertility in the time of economic crisis

March 14, 2021September 18, 2017 Ludovica Comolli
Couples, Fertility, Reproduction, Welfare

When uncertain about the stability of their present or future earnings or jobs, individuals postpone life-changing decisions. Scientific research confirms conventional wisdom and shows that the Great Recession that started … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Surrogacy: a multi-faceted phenomenon

March 6, 2021August 28, 2017 Virginie Rozée and Laurent Toulemon
Demography, Fertility, Reproduction, Welfare, Women

Although still rare among assisted reproductive technologies (ART)¹, surrogacy is a very controversial subject: some consider it as a new way to overcome infertility,others see it as a new reproductive … Read more

one child policy china
Fertility and reproduction

China after the one-child policy: parents bereaved of their only child

March 4, 2021September 12, 2016 Quanbao Jiang, Yan Wei and Stuart Gietel-Basten
Asia, Children, population, Reproduction, Welfare

In 1980, China launched its national one-child policy, in response to both a huge concern about the prospects of rapid population growth impacting on resources and a desire to increase … Read more

Environment and development

Sustainability and the missing links in global governance

September 13, 2022March 14, 2016 George Martine
Environment, Welfare

After decades of dithering, posturing and procrastination on global environmental issues, 2015 appeared to be a banner year for sustainability. Growing recognition of environmental threats finally triggered waves of public … Read more

Valeria Solesin
Gender issues

Allez les filles, au travail!

March 3, 2021November 18, 2015 Valeria Solesin
Education, Welfare, Women, Work

Freanch version below Two years ago, Neodemos received an article from Valeria SOLESIN, a young student who was then unknown to most demographers, in Italy or elsewhere. She was later … Read more

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