The European marriage pattern as solution and problem: Households of the elderly in Verviers, Belgium, 1831

History of the Family

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-138

  Alter, George ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; EUROPE; FAMILY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY SIZE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL SURVEY; KINSHIP NETWORKS; LIVING ARRANGEMENTS; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MICROECONOMIC FACTORS; NUPTIALITY; OLD AGE SECURITY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BELGIUM; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EUROPE; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HISTORICAL SURVEY; KINSHIP NETWORKS; LIVING ARRANGEMENTS; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MICROECONOMIC FACTORS; NUPTIALITY; OLD AGE SECURITY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BELGIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; FAMILY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GEOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; OLD AGE ASSISTANCE; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030357726     PISSN: 1081602X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-602X(96)90002-0     Document Type: Article

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