Fertility, timing of births and socio-economic status in France and Britain: Social policies and occupational polarization

Population

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 475-508

  Ekert Jaffé, Olivia ^a   Joshi, Heather ^b   Lynch, Kevin ^c   Mougin, Rémi ^a   Rendall, Michael ^c  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS STATUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748087889     PISSN: 16342941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3246636     Document Type: Article

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