Europe's population in the 1990's / edited by David Coleman.
Contributor(s): Coleman, D. A
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: xxxv, 346 p. : ill ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0198288948.Subject(s): Europe -- PopulationDDC classification: 304.609049 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 304.609049 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00010410 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book presents an up-to-date picture of Europe's population - East and West - with nine papers by internationally known authors covering all its major aspects. An introductory chapter by the editor describes the variety of birth rates in Europe's populations, from the astonishingly low birth rates in the Mediterranean countries to the growing birth rates of Scandinavia. Other chapters compare European trends in immigration, mortality, and family formation and dissolution, with abundant tables and graphs.The latter part of the book considers some of the causes and consequences of these trends; the extent to which changes in family formation and living arrangements are affected by economic pressures or by the spread of new values; the influence of family policy on the birth rate; the consequences of demographic change in the ageing of Europe's population and its numerical stagnation and possible future decline.Europe's varied population patterns and trends are little known in Britain. Few books are available in English on the subject - this is the only one to deal with Eastern Europe. Ignorance of Europe's demography means that we cannot easily put our own birth and death rates, trends in divorce and cohabitation, into international perspective. Are we at the `centre' of Europe's demography or somewhere on the fringe?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New patterns and trends in European fertility: International and sub-National comparisons / David Coleman -- Partnership behaviour in Europe: Recent trends and issues / Kathleen E. Kiernan -- Migration pressures on Western Europe -- Mortality in Eastern and Western Europe: A widening gap / France Mesle -- The economic environment for family formation / John Ermisch -- Living arrangements, socio-economic position and values among young adults: a pattern description for France, West Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. 1990 / Ron Lesthagghe and Guy Moors -- Projections of European population decline: Serious demography or false alarm? / Heather Joshi -- Population ageing in Europe / Emily Grundy -- The measured and unmeasured effects of welfare benefits on families: implications for Europe's demographic trends / Anne Helene Gauthier.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- The State of Europe's Population1. David Coleman: New Patterns and Trends in European Fertility
- international and sub-nationalcomparisons
- 8. Emily Grundy: Ageing in Europe