Population issues : an interdisciplinary focus

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Population issues : an interdisciplinary focus

edited by Leo J.G. van Wissen and Pearl A. Dykstra

(The Plenum series on demographic methods and population analysis)

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This volume marks the end of an eight-year program of research on population issues, launched in 1990 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: The NWO Priority Program on Population Issues. Initiatives for this program of research were taken over ten years ago by Hans Van Ginkel-who became the first program chair - and Dirk Van De Kaa. The Dutch community of population scientists is deeply indebted to them for their early efforts. At the time, the program carried the name "Between Individual Development and Social Solidarity: Pop ulation and Society in a Period of Transition. " The goals of the Priority Program were threefold: To reduce the fragmentation of research on population issues; to increase collabora tion among population researchers with different disciplinary back grounds; and to strengthen the position of population studies in Dutch academe and in international forums. Looking back over eight years of programed research, we can safely say that the Priority Program has given an enormous impetus to population research in the Netherlands - as this volume attests. This program of research could not have been carried out success fully without the valuable contributions and constructive input of a large group of scientists. The scope and the focus of the Priority Program were defined by a preparatory committee chaired by Gerard Frinking.

Table of Contents

  • Preface. 1. Introduction: The Life Course Approach as an Interdisciplinary Framework for Population Studies
  • P. Dykstra, L. van Wissen. 2. The Life Course: Models and Analysis
  • F. Willekens. 3. From Youth Adulthood: Understanding Changing Patterns of Family Formation from a Life Course Perspective
  • A.C. Liefbroer. 4. Households, Families and Kin Networks
  • A. Kuijsten. 5. Work, Savings and Social Security in a Life Course Perspective
  • H. van Dalen, H.A.A. Verbon. 6. Residential Relocations in the Life Course
  • C. Mulder, P. Hooimeijer. 7. Medical Demography in the Netherlands: Recent Advances, Future Challenges
  • A. Kunst, et al. 8. Advances in the Microsimulation of Demographic Behavior
  • P. Hooimeijer, A. Oskamp. 9. Epilogue: New Directions in Population Studies
  • L. Van Wissen, P. Dykstra. Index.

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  • NCID
    BA45672300
  • ISBN
    • 030646196X
  • LCCN
    99039025
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 287 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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