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Fertility Regulation,ewijckx, 1987a; Peters, 1992). In Belgium, for example, 16% of women born between 1946 and 1950 had sexual intercourse before their eighteenth birthday, compared with 24% and 29% of birth cohorts born in 1956–1960 and 1966–1970 respectively. Fertility dropped sharply and its pattern changed.

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Fertility,empo of family formation. In order to gain an impression of differences in completed fertility, an analysis has also been made of the level of fertility women expect to have by the end of their fertile period.

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Book 2000mographic changes in many countries, acomparison of differences in changes in family formation and fertilitybehaviour between Belgium and The Netherlands is interesting forvarious reasons. .First, even though the economic and cultural differences between thesecountries are relatively small there is

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Fertility,. The level of fertility for women born between 1951 and 1970 is examined on the basis of data from fertility surveys held in both countries in the early 1990s. Young cohorts of women were at the beginning or in the middle of the process of childbearing at the time the surveys were held, while the o

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Labour Force Participation of Mothers,panied by the substitution of full-time jobs by part-time jobs. Characteristic of both trends is that women with children, who seldom used to go out to work, now are increasingly likely to have a paid job. In spite of this, the institutional diversity of the various member states of the European Uni

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Summary and Discussion,rs argue that even though there are remarkable similarities, important inter-country differences persist. Most European countries have witnessed a postponement of marriage and parenthood and an increase in unmarried cohabitation and extramarital fertility. Nevertheless there still exist important di