Books and Reports: The Baltic Sea Region: A Comprehensive Guide

The Baltic Sea Region: A Comprehensive Guide

The Baltic Sea Region, at the crossroads between East and West, North and South, has long been marked by cultural, ethnical and ideological borders. Overcoming a history of conflict and separation, since the end of the Cold War the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea established widely valued formats of regional cooperation based on shared challenges and opportunities. In comparison with larger regions, however, the Baltic Sea Area is still a blank spot on the global map. This volume’s intention is to fill this spot with colour and facts.
Relative Inequalities in Mortality Rise Across Europe

Relative Inequalities in Mortality Rise Across Europe

But they do so as absolute all-cause mortality falls
To better understand increasing inequalities in mortality trends, Rianne de Gelder and colleagues took a long-term approach. Using data from 1970-2010, they explored both absolute and relative inequalities in mortality based on level of education and occupational class. They did so by comparing six countries: England and Wales, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy (Turin) and Norway.
Women’s Employment

Women’s Employment

What’s the role of education?
Numerous studies have confirmed that higher educated women are more likely to be involved in the labour market. However, the strength of education effects on women’s employment can be shown to vary across contexts. In a recent analysis, Nadia Steiber, Caroline Berghammer, and Barbara Haas analyze how and why education effects on women’s employment vary across countries and how these effects are modified by the presence and age of children.
News: Healthy and active ageing – a privilege for everyone?

Healthy and active ageing – a privilege for everyone?

A new research project of the Max Planck Society brings those disadvantaged by demographic change to the foreground and takes a closer look at the countries bordering the Baltic Sea
 In recent years, leading representatives from science, politics and society have been promoting the idea that the ageing of society is a chance that should be used. Not only is the overall life expectancy continuing to increase, there is also the possibility to live longer in good health. Even more people will be able to work longer and be more active in their free time.
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Work and Family in the Rush Hour of Life

Gender Imbalances in the Nordic Countries and Germany
The term ‘rush hour of life’ refers to the phase between the ages of 25 and 45 in which life’s major tasks are concentrated – starting a family, building a career and, increasingly, also caring for one’s parents. At an event on May 18th, organised by the Nordic Embassies in Germany, Population Europe and the Herbert Quandt-Foundation, researchers, experts and politicians from six different countries focused on disparities in family policies in the Nordic countries and in Germany.
Books and Reports: Fatherhood In The Nordic Welfare States - Comparing Care Policies and Practice

Fatherhood In The Nordic Welfare States - Comparing Care Policies and Practice

Abstract and Download Details
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to shaping and influencing the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods.
Making Ends Meet in Retirement

Making Ends Meet in Retirement

Financial worries and money saving behaviour among Europeans with respect to old age
Most welfare states in Europe have taken measures to make their public pension systems more sustainable, not only by increasing the retirement age but also by placing additional responsibility on individuals to close the pension gap through personal savings and private pension plans. A cross-national study by Douglas A. Hershey, Kne Henkens and Hendrik P. van Dalen investigates who worries most about their financial future in retirement and who takes active steps to ensure an adequate standard of living when retired.  
Vidas Versátiles

Vidas Versátiles

La fecundidad planeada de los cohabitantes europeos
Los modelos familiares tradicionales están perdiendo popularidad en Europa. Un ejemplo de ello es que cada vez más y más personas viven juntas sin casarse. La cohabitación tiene diferentes significados para cada persona y los motivos por los que se opta por esta forma familiar son distintos. ¿Influyen dichos motivos sobre las metas de fecundidad? En un reciente estudio llevado a cabo por Nicole Hiekel y Teresa Castro-Martín, se examina la relación existente entre las diferentes perspectivas de cohabitación y la intención de tener un hijo.
Vidas Versátiles

Versatile Designs Of Life

Fertility Intentions Among Cohabiters Across Europe
Traditional family patterns are losing popularity in Europe. One example of this is the fact that more and more people are living together without getting married. Cohabitation means different things to different people, and people choose this family arrangement for various reasons. Do these reasons influence their fertility intentions? In a recent study, Nicole Hiekel and Teresa Castro-Martin examine how the different meanings of cohabitation and the intention to have a child are intertwined.
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