Alternative paths for future european fertility: Will the birth rate recover or continue to decline?

The New Generations of Europeans: Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 83-100

  Lutz, Wolfgang ^a,b,c,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Population Reference Bureau   (United States)

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EID: 34548771120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849775915     Document Type: Chapter

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