Books & Reports

The book AISP Population Report 2021 - L'Italia e le sfide della demografia aims to analyze demographic trends of the Italian population over the last twenty years, situating the Italian dynamics within the larger European context. The main demographic dimensions covered by the book are: family, fertility, transition to adulthood, migration, health and mortality (including recent trends linked to the current COVID-19 pandemic).

This report summarises the findings of three papers produced during the research project, as well as the knowledge and policy gaps identified, along with approaches and entry points for addressing them.

Martin Kolk and Karim Jebari explore the demographic consequences of a female-biased sex ratio for population growth and population age structure and discuss the technology and parental preferences that may give rise to such a scenario.

Edited by Fermina Rojo-Perez and Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas, this handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life.

In this multidisciplinary special issue compiled and edited by Abigail E. Page, Emily H. Emmott and Sarah Myers, they explore social support from different perspectives.

Edited by Aart C. Liefbroer and Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan (NIDI), this open-access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes.

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel and Anna Wanka contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people.

Rosita Fibbi, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen and Patrick Simon provide a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with a particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants.

Demographic Outlook for the European Union 2021 by Monika Kiss focuses on poverty as a global, EU-wide and regional phenomenon, and examines how poverty interacts with demographic indicators (such as fertility and migration rates) or with factors such as the degree of urbanisation.

This working paper by Sophie Riding, Olivier Thévenon, Willem Adema and Gráinne Dirwan provides an overview of the nature and key priorities of family support services operating in OECD countries to inform on the factors that contribute to their quality and delivery effectiveness.