Ebook: Population Issues: An Interdisciplinary Focus
- Tags: Demography, Population Economics, Sociology general, Statistics general, Public Health, Epidemiology
- Series: The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Life Course Approach as an Interdisciplinary Framework for Population Studies....Pages 1-22
The Life Course: Models and Analysis....Pages 23-51
From Youth to Adulthood: Understanding Changing Patterns of Family Formation from a Life Course Perspective....Pages 53-85
Households, Families and Kin Networks....Pages 87-122
Work, Savings and Social Security in a Life Course Perspective....Pages 123-157
Residential Relocations in the Life Course....Pages 159-186
Medical Demography in the Netherlands: Recent Advances, Future Challenges....Pages 187-228
Advances in the Microsimulation of Demographic Behavior....Pages 229-263
Epilogue: New Directions in Population Studies....Pages 265-275
Back Matter....Pages 277-287
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Life Course Approach as an Interdisciplinary Framework for Population Studies....Pages 1-22
The Life Course: Models and Analysis....Pages 23-51
From Youth to Adulthood: Understanding Changing Patterns of Family Formation from a Life Course Perspective....Pages 53-85
Households, Families and Kin Networks....Pages 87-122
Work, Savings and Social Security in a Life Course Perspective....Pages 123-157
Residential Relocations in the Life Course....Pages 159-186
Medical Demography in the Netherlands: Recent Advances, Future Challenges....Pages 187-228
Advances in the Microsimulation of Demographic Behavior....Pages 229-263
Epilogue: New Directions in Population Studies....Pages 265-275
Back Matter....Pages 277-287
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