Education and childlessness: The relationship between educational field, educational level, employment and childlessness among Greek women born in 1955-1959

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research

Volumn , Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-75

  Bagavos, Christos ^a  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

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EID: 78650833992     PISSN: 17284414     EISSN: 17285305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1553/populationyearbook2010s51     Document Type: Article

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