A5023775443- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Social and Demographic Issues in Germany
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Health and Medical Studies
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- European history and politics
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Economic and Social Issues
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Policies and Healthcare Reform
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Family Support in Illness
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Early Childhood Education and Development
University of Bremen
2013-2022
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
2014
Internationale Akademie Berlin
2014
Institut für Zeitgeschichte München–Berlin
2005
Bielefeld University
2005
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
2005
University of Bamberg
2005
Max Planck Society
1992-2004
University of Rostock
2000-2001
Heidelberg (Poland)
2001
Proponents of the "new home economics" hypothesize that women's growing economic independence largely accounts for rise in delayed marriage and motherhood industrialized societies. This article assesses this hypothesis Federal Republic Gernamy by estimating dynamic effects educational career investments on timing family events. Eventhistory analysis shows delaying effect first across cohorts does not result from an increase quality human capital investiments as posited new economics. Rather,...
This article introduces the DFG-funded “Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics” (pairfam) study, which was initiated to provide an extended empirical basis for advances in family research. Within context challenges couples research, we address major substantive fields covered by pairfam panel: couple dynamics partnership stability, childbearing, parenting child development, intergenerational relationships. Then present conceptual framework survey design pairfam. The...
This paper proposes a conceptualization of the life course as set behavioral processes characterized by interdependencies that cross time, domains, and levels analysis. We first discuss need for systematized approach to theory integrates parallel partially redundant concepts developed in variety disciplines. then introduce 'life cube,' which graphically defines illustrates time-domain-level their multiple interactions are central understanding courses. Finally, an appendix, we offer formal...
The life-course approach as a methodological framework for the empirical analysis of longitudinal individual-level data has fundamentally changed agenda demographic research. However, these innovations have not been paralleled by si
This article presents an argument for overcoming some of the limits current family research. To start, major research questions concerning future challenges demographic change and its implications modern welfare states are addressed. The authors propose agenda making progress in this field via two interrelated steps. First, they integration theoretical approaches explaining dynamics design a conceptual framework to model couples' as process purposeful individual action decision-making over...
Sub-national trends in fertility are of great importance for policy makers and regional planners. This paper aims to provide a theoretical empirical framework makers, taking into account past present fertility, as well their underpinnings. These will, we argue, be crucial determining future trajectories potential political responses them.The part the deals with factors that may influence differences at sub-national level, including decisions life course individual contextual socio-economic...
A considerable proportion of childless women in their late thirties or early forties would still like to have children. The number men and whose fertility intentions are potentially influenced by the so-called biological clock for childbearing
Researchers who study family and fertility view Germany as unique among countries. West is a forerunner in trends towards very low fertility, high childlessness transition rates to higher order births Europe. Furthermore, the particular demographic situation East represents an exceptional case. In 1990, new institutional framework, that of Germany, was implemented Germany. At reunification, it generally expected eastern Germans would quickly adopt western German behavioral patterns. While...
Abstract Compared to the amount of information available concerning other former state socialist countries there is a research deficit regarding rates and patterns occupational mobility in GDR. This especially unfortunate since GDR can be characterized as having been country par excellence where many crucial features socialism were realized more consequential way than, for example, Poland or Hungary. In this article authors try give thorough analysis opportunities their historical change The...