Low and Lower Fertility Variations across Developed Countries /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rindfuss, Ronald R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Choe, Minja Kim (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Public health.; Social policy.; Population.; Social groups.; Family.; Youth.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Public Health.; Sociology of Familiy, Youth and Aging.; Social Policy.

This volume examines two distinct low fertility scenarios that have emerged in economically advanced countries since the turn of the 20th century: one in which fertility is at or near replacement-level and the other where fertility is well below replacement. It explores the way various institutions,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction and overview. Minja Kim Choe and Ronald R Rindfuss
• 2. The Surprise that Ought Not To Be: Sustained Low Fertility and Slow Policy Response in China. Wang Feng (University of California – Irvine and Fudan University, Shanghai)
• 3. Singapore’s Pro-Natalist Policies: To What Extent Have They Worked? Gavin Jones (Nationa University of Singapore)
• 4. Policy Responses to a Rapidly Ageing Population: Hong Kong, SAR. Stuart Basten (University of Oxford)
• 5. Below-Replacement Fertility in Japan: Patterns, Factors and Policy Implications. Noriko O. Tsuya (Keio University)
• 6. Low Fertility, Population Ageing, and Policy Response in South Korea. So-Young Lee (KIHASA)
• 7. Variation in U.S. Fertility: Lowest-low and the Not-so-low. S. Philip Morgan (University of North Carolina)
• 8. The Evolution of Population and Family Policy in Australia. Peter McDonald (The Australian National University)
• 9. Policy Responses to Low Fertility and Population Ageing: The Case of the Netherlands. Melinda C. Mills (University of Groningen, moving June 2014 to Oxford University).