Books and Reports: A Future With Children – Booklet And Study By German, Swiss And Austrian Researchers

A Future With Children – Booklet And Study By German, Swiss And Austrian Researchers

A European team of 25 researchers focused on the issue of declining birth rates in three German-speaking countries. A summary of their findings and recommendations has now been published in a booklet that questions many commen myths. It can be downloaded for free in English, German and French (see link). The team, gathered between 2009 and 2012 by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Leopoldina, represents various disciplines – sociology, demography, history and medicine.
Books and Reports: Demographic Portrait Of Hungary 2012

Demographic Portrait Of Hungary 2012

Recently published by the Demographic Research Institute of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Eds. Péter Őri & Zsolt Spéder), this comprehensive book describes Hungary’s demographic situation and interprets the trends in a European context. The publication aims to reach out to a broad audience by explaining demographic topics in a way that can be easily understood by experts and the general public alike. It updates the previous 2009 issue and additionally introduces two major new approaches: The first one is the emphasis on regional differences within the country.
Les jours de Papa

Les jours de Papa

Les effets des réformes promouvant le congé paternité en Suède
La Suède est un pays fréquemment cité comme modèle lorsqu’il s’agit de l’égalité entre les sexes de manière générale et des possibilités de congés parentaux en particulier. Ann-Zofie Duvander (Stockholm University) et Mats Johansson (Swedish Social Insurance Agency) veulent déterminer les effets de trois réformes introduites en Suède entre 1995 et 2008 sur la répartition du congé parental entre les deux parents. En 1974, la Suède a été le premier pays à introduire le congé parental fixé selon les revenus. La durée de ce congé a été allongée de plus d’un an dans les années 1980.  
Les jours de Papa

Daddy’s Days

The effects of reforms promoting fathers’ parental leave in Sweden
Sweden is often referred to as a role model when it comes to gender equality in general, and for its parental leave allowances in particular. Ann-Zofie Duvander (Stockholm University) and Mats Johansson (Swedish Social Insurance Agency) aim at determining the effects of three reforms introduced in Sweden between 1995 and 2008 on the division of parental leave days between the parents. Sweden first introduced parental leave with earnings-related benefits in 1974. The length of leave was extended in the 1980s to over a year.  
Les jours de Papa

Papa Tage

Die Auswirkungen der Reform zur Förderung der Elternzeit von Vätern in Schweden
Was Geschlechtergleichstellung im Allgemeinen und Elterngeld im Besonderen anbelangt, wird Schweden häufig als Vorbild genannt. Ann-Zofie Duvander (Universität Stockholm) und Mats Johansson (schwedisches Sozialversicherungsamt) untersuchen den Einfluss von drei zwischen 1995 und 2008 in Schweden eingeführten Reformen auf die Aufteilung der Elternzeittage zwischen den Eltern. In Schweden wurde der Erziehungsurlaub mit einkommensabhängigen Leistungen erstmalig im Jahr 1974 eingeführt. In den 1980ern wurde die Dauer der Freistellung auf über ein Jahr ausgeweitet.
Les jours de Papa

Los días de papá

Los efectos de las reformas que promueven el permiso de paternidad en Suecia
Frecuentemente, Suecia es considerado un modelo a seguir en cuanto a igualdad de género, en general, y por sus subsidios de los permisos de maternidad o paternidad en particular. El país introdujo por primera vez el permiso parental con subsidios calculados en función de los ingresos en 1974 y la duración del mismo se amplió en los años ochenta a más de un año.
Population Europe Inter-Faces: Zsolt Spéder

Population Europe Inter-Faces: Zsolt Spéder

Having a child is as legitimate an aim in life as having a Mercedes" - an interview with Zsolt Spéder (Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest). Questions: 1. What are the most interesting demographic developments in the new European member states in the last decades? 2. What is the reason for this? 3. Will fertility behaviour change soon or always stay low? 4. What is the role of cultural factors compared to economic factors? 5. What do you consider the main cause for fertility decline?
Population Europe Inter-Faces: Anna Cabré

Population Europe Inter-Faces: Anna Cabré

"Having children is always going to be a risky initiative" - an interview with Anna Cabré Questions: 1. What do you consider the biggest myth in demography? 2. How big a problem do you consider fertility decline to be? 3. How could the gap between the number of children people wish to have and actual birth rates be bridged? 4. From an historical perspective: how have families changed? 5. What circumstances do people need for having children?
Family Patterns are Changing a Lot

Family Patterns are Changing a Lot

Interview with Anne-Sophie Parent
Balancing work and family duties is already quite a challenge for lots of Europeans. Yet in the future, the care-needs of an increasing number of older people have to be met as well. How can modern family structures and childless people cope with these challenges? What can be done by individuals, as well as by society? Population Europe asked Anne-Sophie Parent:
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