Demographic Debate
Introduction by Commissioner Vladimir Spidla to the four
essays written in response to the communication on
The Demographic Future of Europe ................................ 1
Demographic diversity and the ethnic consequences of
immigration - key issues that the Commission's report left
out ............................................................. 5
David A. Coleman
Does the Commission's report adequately address the key
issues of the demographic future of Europe? .................... 13
Jonathan Grant and Stijn Hoorens
Adaptation versus mitigation policies on demographic change
in Europe ...................................................... 19
Wolfgang Lutz
A clouded view of Europe's demographic future .................. 27
Paul Demeny
Refereed Articles
China's uncertain demographic present and future ............... 37
Wolfgang Lutz, Sergei Scherbov, Gui Ying Cao, Qiang Ren and
Xiaoying Zheng
Explaining new trends in the gender gap of mortality:
Insights from a regional trend-analysis from the Netherlands ... 61
Jeroen Spijker, Frans van Poppel, Leo van Wissen
Widening educational disparities in all-cause mortality:
An analysis of Austrian data with international comparisons .... 93
Franz Schwarz
On the age dynamics of learned societies - taking the
example of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ................... 107
Gustav Feichtinger, Maria Winkler-Dworak, Inga Freund,
Alexia Prskawetz and Fernando Riosmena
Economic aging and demographic change ......................... 133
Dominik Grafenhofer, Christian Jaag, Christian Keuschnigg
and Mirela Keuschnigg
Population decline and infrastructure: The case of the
German water supply system .................................... 167
Diana Hummel and Alexandra Lux
Reconstruction of population by age, sex and level of
educational attainment of 120 countries for 1970-2000 ......... 193
Wolfgang Lutz, Anne Goujon, Samir K.C. and Warren Sanderson
New times, old believes: projecting the future size of
religions in Austria .......................................... 237
Anne Goujon, Vegard Skirbekk, Katrin Fliegenschnee and Pawel
Strzelecki
Religion and fertility ideals, intentions and behaviour: a
comparative study of European countries ....................... 271
Dimiter Philipov and Caroline Berghammer
Data & Trends (non-refereed contributions)
Ageing in Austria: An overview of "Survey of Health, Ageing
and Retirement in Europe" (SHARE) with special focus on
aspects of health ............................................. 309
Isabella Buber
Reconstruction of the historical series of life tables and
of age-sex structures for the Austrian population in
19th-first half of 20th centuries ............................. 327
Dalkhat Ediev and Richard Gisser
Childbearing preferences and family issues in Europe:
evidence from the Eurobarometer 2006 survey ................... 357
Maria Rita Testa
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