Books and reports

Books & Reports

This section provides an overview of selected book publications of Population Europe researchers, cooperation partners and from other sources. If available, links guide the user to the publication websites.

MAR report

Socioeconomic differences in access to and use of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) in a context of increasing childlessness

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The development of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) has attracted increased attention of both researchers and the wider public. This report summarizes research on MAR and examines the main drivers behind its development, as well as the different contexts in which it takes place, and the main socioeconomic variables underlying variations in access and usage.
Report Covid Inequalities

Economic and social inequalities in Europe in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic had varying impacts on social groups, depending on existing disadvantages, and it was widely believed that it triggered a rise in inequalities across different areas of life. Using indicators from the EU’s Multidimensional Inequality Monitoring Framework (MIMF), this report shows how inequality in the spheres of income, health, employment and education changed between 2010 and 2020.
Courgeau

Understanding Human Life. A Methodological and Interdisciplinary Approach

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This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life. It compares our life experience with the attempts to grasp it by astrologers, eugenicists, psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists, and philosophers. The main opposition among these specialties lies between understanding and misunderstanding. The book also addresses the central methodological difficulty of capturing a human life.

This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life. It compares our life experience with the attempts to grasp it by astrologers, eugenicists, psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists, and philosophers. The book also addresses the central methodological difficulty of capturing a human life.

Physically Constructed and Socially Shaped: Socio-Material Environment and Walking for Transportation in Later Life

Physically Constructed and Socially Shaped: Socio-Material Environment and Walking for Transportation in Later Life

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Yang Li investigates three intersecting environmental dimensions on late-life walking: built structures, social infrastructure, and social capital, conceptually basing it on the ecological framework of place within a life course perspective.
Labour migration in Flanders and the use of the single permit to address labour market shortages: The lived experiences of single permit holders working in medium skilled bottleneck professions

Labour migration in Flanders and the use of the single permit to address labour market shortages: The lived experiences of single permit holders working in medium skilled bottleneck professions

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Amy Weatherburn, Elias Herman Kruithof and Christophe Vanroelen investigate the lived experiences of migrant workers in Flanders, who are single permit holders.
Storia demografica d'Italia

Storia demografica d'Italia

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The book reconstructs Italy's demographic path in relation to cultural, social and economic changes. By adopting a long-term perspective, this book helps understand Italy in the present and grasp the scope of the challenges that demography poses to the country's future.

The book reconstructs Italy's demographic path in relation to cultural, social and economic changes. By adopting a long-term perspective, this book helps understand Italy in the present and grasp the scope of the challenges that demography poses to the country's future.

Climate Change, Displacement, Mobility and Migration The State of Evidence, Future Scenarios, Policy Options

Climate Change, Displacement, Mobility and Migration: The State of Evidence, Future Scenarios, Policy Options

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In this Delmi research overview, Mathias Czaika and Rainer Münz present the state of the field relating to the complex impact of climate and environmental change on the drivers and outcomes of mobility, displacement, and international migration.