Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/97002 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers No. 08/2006
Publisher: 
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Vienna
Abstract: 
The interplay between changes of different demographic determinants may trigger or prevent convergence of various dimensions of demographic behaviour both within and between countries of western and Eastern Europe. We investigate whether convergence or divergence dynamics prevail across cohorts in Austria, Hungary, northern Italy and Slovenia with regard to union formation and transition to motherhood. Our findings suggest that convergence in patterns of union formation and first birth is far from being achieved across the countries considered. Postponement of family formation and motherhood has spread, but between-country differences persist and even suggest diverging cross-country patterns.
Subjects: 
Union formation
marriage
first birth
childbearing
convergence
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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