Books and Reports: Work-life Balance For All: Best practice examples from EU Member States

Work-life Balance For All: Best practice examples from EU Member States

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This brochure presents 20 best practice examples of EU-funded projects that have promoted work-life balance in the EU’s Member States. This catalogue of examples, which include testimonials from project representatives and beneficiaries, has been developed to encourage exchanges of experience and the implementation of innovative approaches to fostering work-life balance across Member States.

This brochure presents 20 best practice examples of EU-funded projects that have promoted work-life balance in the EU’s Member States. This catalogue of examples, which include testimonials from project representatives and beneficiaries, has been developed to encourage exchanges of experience and the implementation of innovative approaches to fostering work-life balance across Member States.

Discussion Paper No. 11: Migrant Families in Europe

Discussion Paper No. 11: Migrant Families in Europe

Evidence from the Generations & Gender Programme
Download Discussion Paper 11/2019 (1.56 MB)
The contributions stress the heterogeneity among migrants’ family life, and the need for more research and targeted policies. Concretely, four key messages are to be considered:

The contributions stress the heterogeneity among migrants’ family life, and the need for more research and targeted policies. More research using longitudinal data is needed for advancing our understanding of migrants’ attitudes and behaviours in the realm of family life and for providing informed advice to policymakers and organizations aiming to improve migrants’ living conditions and the life chances of their children.

Demography Today

Demography Today

Our partners at the Spanish National Research Council, Center for Humanities & Social Sciences, Institute of Economy, Geography & Demography, Research Group on Demographic Dynamics have an ongoing lecture series entitled "Demography Today".
News: Population Europe at the 2019 PAA

Population Europe at the 2019 PAA

This year, Population Europe will be travelling to Austin, Texas to participate in the Population Association of America's annual conference. We will be there to meet with members of our network, learn about the ongoing research happening in the field of demography, and, most importantly, to help keep people updated with what is going on at the conference through our tweets.

Population Europe will be in Austin next week for the 2019 PAA!

Less Liberal Than on Paper

Less Liberal Than on Paper

People living in Germany oppose abortion more than other western Europeans
One of the most crucial and emotional subjects of current bio-ethical debates is the question of abortion. Women (and their partners) who face such a decision are confronted with a contradictory situation: Abortion has become legal in almost all European and western countries. Yet, the implementation of the law, the daily practise of the respective physicians and clinics, or the regulations for funding an abortion by the healthcare systems are subject to big disputes between politicians, religious leaders and female activists.

Sarah Carol (University of Cologne) and Nadja Milewski (University of Rostock) carried out two studies that investigated the attitudes toward abortion among natives and immigrants living in cities in several European countries. Both studies revealed that there is large variation in the attitudes toward abortion among the inhabitants of Europe.

 

News: ERC Advanced Grants for Hill Kulu and Melinda Mills

ERC Advanced Grants for Hill Kulu and Melinda Mills

Population Europe is delighted to announce that two of our partner institutes will be the home of outstanding projects financed by the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant. 

Population Europe is delighted to announce that Melinda Mills and Hill Kulu from two of our partner institutes will be home of outstanding projects financed by the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant. 

Using Twitter Data to Study Attitudes, Values, and Feelings Related to Family Life

Using Twitter Data to Study Attitudes, Values, and Feelings Related to Family Life

To what extent do social media users report negative or positive affects on topics relevant to the fertility domain? In a recent study published in Demographic Research, Letizia Mencarini and colleagues used computational linguistic techniques to explore opinions and semantic orientations related to parenthood on Twitter.

To what extent do social media users report negative or positive affects on topics relevant to the fertility domain? In a recent study published in Demographic Research, Letizia Mencarini and colleagues used computational linguistic techniques to explore opinions and semantic orientations related to parenthood on Twitter.

News: Population Europe Celebrates International Women's Day

Population Europe Celebrates International Women's Day

In honor of International Women's Day (IWD), check out some of our publications about research on gender and gender equality.

In honor of International Women's Day (IWD), Population Europe gathered some of its publications about research on gender and gender equality.

Beyond Father-Mother-Child

Beyond Father-Mother-Child

Today, there are plenty of different living arrangements and subsequent unions, separations and childbearing with multiple partners that contribute to the growing complexity of family ties, making households with multiple (step-) parental relationships and step- and half-siblings increasingly common.

A new article by researchers Elke Claessens and Dimitri Mortelmans provides a comparative analysis of how these new family models are being addressed in the child support schemes of eight different countries.

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