European Populations Unity in Diversity

The changing demographic landscape which Europe is facing today and in the next decades reflects the past. These changes constitute important challenges to European populations and societies. Shifts in fertility and family formation, in health, morbidity and mortality, in internal and international...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Van der Kaa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:European Studies of Population
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Europe and its population: the long view
  • 1.1. The flawed goddess
  • 1.2. Time and scale: the long past
  • 1.3. Europe: concepts and limits
  • 1.4. Time, space, and population: the long future
  • 1.5. From the pantheon
  • 2. Les nouveaux modes de planification de la famille en Europe
  • 2.1. Les changements les plus significatifs
  • 2.2. Les perspectives
  • 3. Who is working in Europe?
  • 3.1. From work to non-work: an introduction
  • 3.2. General frame of reference
  • 3.3. Differentiating jobs and workers
  • 3.4. Individual and household features in relation to the labour market
  • 3.5. The changing pattern of the labour life cycle
  • 3.6. Future trends and foreseeable problems
  • 3.7. A brief conclusion
  • 4. Migration pressures on Europe
  • 4.1. Comment on a definition which cannot be avoided
  • 4.2. Objectives and contents
  • 4.3. Basic trends: the global context
  • 4.4. Basic trends in the old continent: can we really speak of migration pressures on Europe?
  • 4.5. Issues of the late 1990s: a review of challenges faced by Europe
  • 4.6. Conclusions: does Europe still need migrants?
  • List of authors