People, Population Change and Policies

Table of Contents

PART I: Demographic trends, population related policies and general attitudes

1. Demographic change and family policy regimes
Osmo Kontula and Ismo Söderling

2. Demographic knowledge and evaluation of demographic trends
Jürgen Dorbritz

3. Who should take care for them?
Ralf Mai, Robert Naderi and Peter Schimany

4.Changing attitudes on population trends and policies?
Jürgen Dorbritz

PART II: Comparative Delphi-Study

5. 2030: Another Europe?
Rossella Palomba and Piero Dell’Anno

6. Action programs of socio-political actors
Alfred Bertschinger

7. Making dialog possible
Adele Menniti and Maura Misiti

PART III: Gender Roles

8. Family-related gender attitudes
Dimiter Philipov

9.Gender and fertility
Kerstin Ruckdeschel

PART IV: Intergenerational Solidarity and Elderly

10. Attitudes towards population ageing and older people
Ronald Schoenmaeckers, Marc Callens, Lieve Vanderleyden and Lucie Vidovicova

11. Activating older workers: policies versus opinions and expectations
Janina Jozwiak, Irena E. Kotowska and Anita Abramowska

12. Only fools rush in?
Lucie Vidovicova, Beatrice Manea and Ladislav Rabusic

PART V: Policy Implications and Conclusions

13. The need to adapt and reform social policy: setting the stage for effective population-friendly policies
Dragana Avramov and Robert Cliquet

14. Conclusions
Charlotte Höhn

ANNEX: CD-ROM with the IPPAS-Database (SPSS) and the IPPAS-Codebook

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