People, Population Change and Policies

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Charlotte Höhn

PART I: Theoretical background, methods and opportunities for analyses of the International Population Policy Acceptance Study database (IPPAS)

2. From Population Policy Acceptance surveys to the international database
Dragana Avramov and Robert Cliquet

3. Selected statistical methods to analyse IPPAS
Marc Callens

4. Pathways of welfare and population-related policies
Beat Fux

PART II: Attitudes towards (the change of) the family

5. Attitudes towards forms of partnership
Marietta Pongracz and Zsolt Speder

6. Family transformations in the post-communist countries: attitudes toward changes
Vlada Stankuniene and Ausra Maslauskaite

PART III: Value of children

7. Motivation to have children in Europe
Tineke Fokkema and Ingrid Esveldt

8. Intergenerational changes in the value system in Europe
Irena Kowalska and Wiktoria Wroblewska

9. Attitudes and intentions toward childlessness in Europe
Tomas Sobotka and Maria Rita Testa

PART IV: Fertility Intentions

10. Will we witness an upturn in European fertility in the near
future?
Christine van Peer and Ladislav Rabusic

11. Fertility preferences and expectations regarding old age
Kalev Katus, Allan Puur and Asta Poldma

12. The influence of education and family policies on age at first birth
Osmo Kontula

PART V: Reconciliation of work and family

13. Preferences regarding reconciliation of family and professional life versus reality
Majda Cernic Istenic and Andrej Kveder

14. Reconciliation of work and family within different institutional settings
Irena Kotowska and Anna Matysiak

15. Work-Family orientation and female labour market participation
Kalev Katus, Asta Poldma and Allan Puur

PART VI: Family related policies

16. Family Policies: Financial or institutional measures?
Anneli Miettinen, Ingrid Esveldt and Tineke Fokkema

17. Anticipated impact of family policies on fertility behaviour among the childless and among one-child parents
Ingrid Esveldt, Tineke Fokkema and Anneli Miettinen

18. Preferences versus actual family policy measures
Nada Stropnik, Joze Sambt and Jirina Kocourkova

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