This article provides new measures allowing comparing within-country differences in current fertility behavior in Europe. By mobilizing data from the European Union’s Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), we measure the educational gradient of female period fertility for a large set of European countries. A semi-retrospective approach s...
This paper addresses the question to what extent the association between partners’ earnings matters for inequality between couples. First, we organize the existing literature to explain why studies come to a large variety of conclusions despite using, on occasions, the same data. Second, we use data from the Luxembourg Income Studies on 21 countrie...
The European Union includes 11 post-communist countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia). The population of this group of countries has fallen by 7% since 1989, whereas that of the rest of the EU has risen by 13%. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, these countries had younge...
Les données des statistiques de l’Union européenne sur le revenu et les conditions de vie (EU-SILC) sont de plus en plus utilisées dans différents domaines de recherche en raison du grand nombre de pays couverts, des indicateurs socioéconomiques harmonisés disponibles et de la possibilité de les comparer, voire de les fusionner, à d’autres données....
L’Union européenne compte onze pays anciennement communistes (Bulgarie, Croatie, Estonie, Hongrie, Lettonie, Lituanie, Pologne, République tchèque, Roumanie, Slovaquie et Slovénie). La population de cet ensemble de pays a baissé de 7 % depuis 1989, alors que celle du reste de l’UE a augmenté de 13 %. Ils étaient démographiquement plus jeunes que le...
Various fields of research increasingly use the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database because of its large country coverage, the availability of harmonized socioeconomic measures, and the possibility of merging partners. Its measures of the number of children risk being biased, however, because the questionnai...
