Karsten Hank
Biographic Data
| ID | 127221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karsten Hank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Hank |
| SIGNATURE | HANK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1844-7612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States
Objective To develop a typology of relationship quality for nuclear and extended family relations of younger adults in the United States, accounting for variation across kinship types and racial/ethnic groups. Background Existing typologies of family relationships primarily focus on nuclear ties, often neglecting relations with extended kin. Ties to extended kin are, however, central to many people's lives and may be particularly salient in certa…
A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks
BACKGROUND Kolk et al. (2023) use Swedish register data to provide a detailed numerical account of biological kinship.Applying their approach in other countries is challenging due to high data requirements. OBJECTIVEWe examine whether Kolk et al.'s (2023) findings generalize to another demographically advanced country, the Netherlands, and assess how differences in cohort fertility and divorce rates influence the prevalence of different kin types…
Life-course generational placements and health and wellbeing in later life
Previous research has demonstrated that family transitions, specifically births and deaths of preceding and following generations within families, are associated with individuals’ later-life wellbeing and health. However, lifecourse, family systems and role theories suggest that this relationship might be complex because, as individuals age, they can experience multiple such events and their effects might be interconnected. Therefore, this study …
Intergenerational Solidarity in Native and Migrant Families in Germany: Adult Children’s Perspectives in FReDA
This study updates and extends previous research on native and migrant intergenerational solidarity differences in Germany, a country with one of the highest numbers of immigrants worldwide. Using baseline data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA), conducted in 2021, we assess two dimensions of intergenerational solidarity—contact frequency and emotional closeness—in non-coresident biological adult parent–child relationships (16,…
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database for family research. Major substantive fields addressed in the questionnaire include fertility-related attitudes and behaviours, reproductive health, work-family conflict, couples' division of labour, gender roles, intimate relationships, separation and divorce, parenting and intergenerational relations, a…
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents' depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach
To date, only a few studies have investigated the bidirectional relationship in the intergenerational proximity-health nexus, specifically how geographic proximity affects older parents' depressive symptoms and vice versa. Drawing on eight waves (2004–2018) of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (n = 17,671), we examine several mechanisms (‘mobilization’, ‘social support’, and ‘social breakdown’) that drive the complex relationship between inter…
Emerging Ideas. Family estrangement and its association with life satisfaction and depressiveness in adulthood
Handbuch Familiensoziologie
Das Handbuch Familiensoziologie bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die große thematische Breite und Tiefe der familiensoziologischen Forschung
Handbuch Familiensoziologie
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Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of Covid-19
We analyze data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, including a pre-pandemic baseline and seven survey waves between May 2020 and September 2021. Fixed effects panel regression models are run over more than 11,000 individuals, distinguishing among women and men with young children (<5 years), older children (5-15 years), or no children in the household. We hypothesize that declines in life satisfaction during the first lockdown are sharper …
Sibling estrangement in adulthood
Whereas interest in adult sibling relationships has been growing, we are not aware of any quantitative studies focusing on sibling estrangement (that is, lack of contact or emotional closeness). This gap in the literature seems unfortunate, because estrangement in close family relationships has been suggested to be momentous for family functioning and individuals' well-being. Drawing on four waves of the German Family Panel (pairfam; n = 5,729), …
Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)
This is the Editorial on the Special Issue 'Family Research and Demographic Analysis - New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA
Disparities in Subjective Well-being by Sexual Orientation: Comparing Cohorts from pairfam's (2008-09) and FReDA's (2021) Baseline Waves
Significant expansion of legal rights and recognition of sexual minority populations triggered expectations that structural stigma, sexual minority stress and, consequently, previously well-documented disadvantages in health and well-being may decline over time. The empirical evidence on this issue is, however, still sparse and inconclusive. We contribute to this research by comparing baseline data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; 2008-09) …
Adult children's estrangement from parents in Germany
Objective To analyze the prevalence and predictors of children's estrangement from noncoresident biological mothers and fathers during young and middle adulthood. Background Intergenerational relationships exhibit considerable heterogeneity and need not always be close or intact. However, despite its potentially far‐reaching impact on the entire family system, only very few quantitative studies have been conducted yet investigating adult parent–c…
The virus changed everything, didn’t it? Couples’ division of housework and childcare before and during the Corona crisis
Objective: To contribute to the discussion about the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender (in)equality. Background: We focus on a core aspect of gender (in)equality in intimate relationships, namely couples’ division of housework and childcare, and whether this has changed during the Corona crisis. Method: Our descriptive analysis is based on pre-release data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; Wave 12) and its supplementary Cor…
Longitudinal Associations Between Adult Relations with Intimate Partners and Siblings
Objective Drawing on a relational developmental systems approach, this brief report examines spillover and compensation processes in self‐disclosure and conflict in adult relations with intimate partners and siblings. Background Although some studies have examined links between sibling and partner relationships during adolescence, no research has examined the link between dynamics with siblings and intimate partners in adulthood. Method This stud…
Heterogeneity in Trajectories of Life Satisfaction After Reunification: The Role of Individual Resources and Life Stage in Former East Germany
For people living in the former East Germany, reunification with the former West Germany fundamentally transformed the sociopolitical system and most domains of everyday life. Previous research has revealed temporal shifts in average life satisfaction after reunification in the former East German population as a whole, but so far little is known about heterogeneity in patterns of adjustment within the population. Building on evidence of considera…
Linked in Life and Death: A Note on the Effect of Parental Death on Sibling Relations in Young and Middle Adulthood
Despite the important role of adult parent–child and sibling relations in the family system, only few studies have investigated yet, how the common adult experience of parental death impacts sibling relations. Estimating fixed-effects regression models using four waves of data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; n = 4,123 respondents), the present note focused on changes in three dimensions of adult siblings’ relationship qualities following t…
Grandparenthood and risk of mortality: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Grandparenthood constitutes a significant role for older adults and may have important health implications. Our study examines the grandparenthood-mortality nexus, controlling for an array of potentially confounding variables. Longitudinal survey data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) were used, comprising twelve biennial waves from 1992 to 2014 with linked data on vital status derived from the National Death Index. The sample included 2…
Family Research and Demographic Analysis (FReDA): Evolution, Framework, Objectives, and Design of 'The German Family-Demographic Panel Study
This article introduces the evolution, framework, objectives, and design of the new data infrastructure 'FReDA - The German Family-Demographic Panel Study', which has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2020. FReDA is rooted in the Generation and Gender Survey (GGS) and the German Family Panel (pairfam). FReDA was initiated to facilitate research on family and demography by providing a comprehensive p…
Gender Role Attitudes Cannot Explain How British Couples Responded to Increased Housework Demands during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Previous research has shown that gender role attitudes can predict changes in couples' housework division over critical life events, but these studies might have suffered from endogeneity because such life events are anticipated and may be affected by gender role attitudes. In contrast, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a truly exogenous shock that hit couples unexpectedly. Estimating fixed-effects regression models, the author…
Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel
Families have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown, but barely any research has been conducted yet, investigating how COVID-19-related stressors - and, specifically, disruptions in established employment arrangements - affected couples' relationship quality. To account more comprehensively for such non-monetary costs of the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study investigates whether changes in partners' employment situ…
Natives’ and Immigrants’ Gender Preferences for Children in Germany
Interdependencies in Mothers’ and Daughters’ Work-Family Life Course Trajectories: Similar but Different
Women’s life courses underwent substantial changes in the family and work domains in the second half of the twentieth century. The associated fundamental changes in opportunity structures and values challenged the importance of families of origin for individual life courses, but two research strands suggest enduring within-family reproduction of women’s family behavior and work outcomes. We revisit this issue by studying two complementary types o…
Grandparents Caring for their Grandchildren: Findings From the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe
Introducing findings from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this research complements the large number of recent U.S. studies on the role of grandparents in caring for their grandchildren. For 10 continental European countries, the authors investigate cross-national variations in grandparent-provided child care as well as differences in characteristics of the providers and recipients of care. Although they find …
Proximity and Contacts Between Older Parents and Their Children: A European Comparison
Using data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this article continues and extends recent cross‐national research on proximity and contacts of older parents to their children. In addition to a brief description of the geography of families in 10 continental European countries, determinants of intergenerational proximity and contacts are examined. Even when microlevel factors are controlled for, the Mediterranean people…
A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and Women's Fertility Decisions in Western Germany
The availability of public day care is often assumed to be crucial to the compatibility of childrearing and women's employment. This article takes a multilevel perspective in investigating the role of child care in childbearing decisions in western Germany. Using information on the local supply of public day care and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimated first and second birth risks from the 1980s and 1990s. We found that access…
Gendering family composition: Sex preferences for children and childbearing behavior in the Nordic countries
It has been argued that a society’s gender system may influence parents’ sex preferences for children. If this is true, one should expect to find no evidence of such preferences in countries with a high level of gender equality. In this article, we exploit data from population registers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden to examine continuities and changes in parental sex preferences in the Nordic countries during the past three to four de…
Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China and Korea: Findings From CHARLS and KLoSA
Our analysis suggests that in South Korea, patrilineal considerations may begin to lose some of their importance in shaping downward functional solidarity between generations and that instead (grand-)children's actual needs, particularly those related to maternal employment, receive more attention. We find no such evidence in our Chinese sample
Tracing the origins of successful aging: The role of childhood conditions and social inequality in explaining later life health
Do child-care characteristics influence continued child bearing in Sweden? An investigation of the quantity, quality, and price dimension
Die Verfasser verknuepfen Daten der amtlichen Statistik mit regionalen Daten zu Kinderbetreuung, um den Einfluss zu untersuchen, den die Moeglichkeit von Kinderbetreuung auf die Entscheidung fuer ein zweites oder drittes Kind bei schwedischen Paaren in den Jahren 1997 und 1998 gehabt hat. Dabei werden verschiedene Dimensionen von Kindertagesbetreuung untersucht: der Umfang des Angebots, die Zahl der Kinder pro Betreuungsperson und die Kosten der …
The participation of older Europeans in volunteer work
The contemporary discussion about the growing ‘burden of population ageing’ should not neglect the substantial productive potential of older people. Using micro-data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this paper examines the relationships between selected socio-demographic characteristics and the rates of participation in voluntary work in 10 European countries among those aged 50 or more years. The analysis …
Does the availability of child care influence the employment of mothers? Findings from western Germany
Parenthood, Marital Status, and Well-Being in Later Life: Evidence from SHARE
The social connectedness of older Europeans: Patterns, dynamics and contexts
Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), our article shows that the population aged 50 or older is socially connected in several ways. The various dimensions of social connectedness turn out to be complementary rather than substitutive, except for the relationship between informal social relations and family relations, which tends to be characterized by substitution. Our longitudinal analysis rev…
Childbearing history, later-life health, and mortality in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later-life health and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with better self-rated health in West German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with East German women's physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical heal…
Gender Preferences for Children in Europe: Empirical Results from 17 FFS Countries
Gender preferences may have substantial implications for a coupleâ s fertility behavior. However, there is only limited empirical research investigating this subject in modern Western societies. In this paper, data from the Fertility and Family Surveys
Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel
Families have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown, but barely any research has been conducted yet, investigating how COVID-19-related stressors - and, specifically, disruptions in established employment arrangements - affected couples' relationship quality. To account more comprehensively for such non-monetary costs of the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study investigates whether changes in partners' employment situ…
Volunteer work, informal help, and care among the 50+ in Europe: Further evidence for ‘linked’ productive activities at older ages
Regional fertility differences in western Germany: An overview of the literature and recent descriptive findings
In the years following German unification, researchers' attention has been attracted mainly by the rapid fertility decline in eastern Germany. This has often resulted in neglect of regional fertility differentials within Germany, which reach much further back in time than those currently observed between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ Länder of the Federal Republic. This paper provides an overview of studies investigating regional fertility differences …
Family Research and Demographic Analysis (FReDA): Evolution, Framework, Objectives, and Design of 'The German Family-Demographic Panel Study
This article introduces the evolution, framework, objectives, and design of the new data infrastructure 'FReDA - The German Family-Demographic Panel Study', which has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2020. FReDA is rooted in the Generation and Gender Survey (GGS) and the German Family Panel (pairfam). FReDA was initiated to facilitate research on family and demography by providing a comprehensive p…
Regional Social Contexts and Individual Fertility Decisions: A Multilevel Analysis of First and Second Births in Western Germany
Scars that will not Disappear: Long-term Associations between Early and Later life Unemployment under Different Welfare Regimes
Exploiting retrospective data from the SHARELIFE project, we investigate long-term associations between early and later life unemployment spells of at least six months in a sample of more than 13,000 men and women from eleven European countries. Our findings provide, first, evidence for significant differences in the life-course pattern of unemployment occurrence between welfare state regimes. Second, childhood conditions are shown to bear signif…
How "Successful" Do Older Europeans Age? Findings From SHARE
The observed cross-national variation in successful aging-which continues to exist if population composition is controlled for-highlights the importance of taking into consideration structural factors at the societal level. It also suggests a potential for policy interventions supporting individuals' opportunities for successful aging
Parenthood, Gender, and Personal Wealth
This study examines the association between parenthood and the growth of personal wealth of women and men over time. We argue that parenthood creates unique restrictions and opportunity structures for mothers and fathers in terms of personal wealth accumulation. Using rich data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, 2012; N = 28,650 individuals), we apply random-effects growth curve models to test our expectations. We find that m…
Gender and the Division of Household Labor in Older Couples: A European Perspective
Using microdata from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this study takes a cross-national perspective to investigate the division of household labor among older couples (aged 50 years or more). Across nine continental European countries, the authors find considerable variation in the overall distribution of housework between partners, with more egalitarian countries in northern Europe and more traditional countrie…
Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland / Child Care and Fertility in Germany
Eine zentrale Rolle in der Diskussion um eine bessere Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf spielt die Versorgung mit bedarfsgerechter Kinderbetreuung. Eine umfassendes Angebot an Betreuungsplätzen fördert jedoch nicht nur die Müttererwerbstätigkeit, sondern könnte sich auch positiv auf Fertilitätsentscheidungen auswirken. Im vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der amtlichen Kinder- und…
Understanding parental gender preferences in advanced societies: Lessons from Sweden and Finland
Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the opportunity to compare childbearing dynamics and possible underlying sex
Full-, Half-, and Step-Sibling Relations in Young and Middle Adulthood
This study investigated relationships of full-, half-, and step-siblings in young and middle adulthood with a focus on frequency of contact, emotional closeness, and conflict. We distinguish full-siblings whose parents still live together as a couple (Type 1) from those whose parents separated or died (Type 2). Based on data from Wave 5 of the German Family Panel ( pairfam), we analyzed 8,920 reports from 5,482 respondents representative of three…
Does the availability of child care influence the employment of mothers? Findings from western Germany
Gender Preferences for Children in Europe: Empirical Results from 17 FFS Countries
Gender preferences may have substantial implications for a coupleâ s fertility behavior. However, there is only limited empirical research investigating this subject in modern Western societies. In this paper, data from the Fertility and Family Surveys
Regional fertility differences in western Germany: An overview of the literature and recent descriptive findings
In the years following German unification, researchers' attention has been attracted mainly by the rapid fertility decline in eastern Germany. This has often resulted in neglect of regional fertility differentials within Germany, which reach much further back in time than those currently observed between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ Länder of the Federal Republic. This paper provides an overview of studies investigating regional fertility differences …
Changes in Swedish Women's Individual Activity Status and the Subsequent Risk of Giving Birth in the 1980s and 1990s: An Extension of Studies by Gunnar Andersson and Britta Hoem
In this note the author uses Swedish register data to investigate changes in a womanâ s activity status and her subsequent propensity to give birth. This extends previous studies of female labor force participation and childbearing conducted by Andersso
Regional Social Contexts and Individual Fertility Decisions: A Multilevel Analysis of First and Second Births in Western Germany
The geographic context of male nuptiality in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s
This paper studies the relationship between characteristics of menâ s place of residence and the probability of entering marriage in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. We link micro-information from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP)
Sex Preferences for Children Revisited: New Evidence from Germany
Empirical research investigating sex preferences for children and their implications for fertility decisions in advanced industrial societies is relatively scarce. Recent studies on this matter have presented ambiguous evidence regarding the existence as well as the direction such preferences can take. We use data from the most recent German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) to analyse determinants of the preferred sex distribution of prospective of…
Sex Preferences for Children Revisited: New Evidence from Germany
The Differential Influence of Women's Residential District on the Risk of Entering First Marriage and Motherhood in Western Germany
Eine Mehrebenenanalyse regionaler Einflüsse auf die Familiengründung westdeutscher Frauen in den Jahren 1984 bis 1999
Les préférences relatives au sexe des enfants: De Nouvelles Données Allemandes
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A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and Women's Fertility Decisions in Western Germany
The availability of public day care is often assumed to be crucial to the compatibility of childrearing and women's employment. This article takes a multilevel perspective in investigating the role of child care in childbearing decisions in western Germany. Using information on the local supply of public day care and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimated first and second birth risks from the 1980s and 1990s. We found that access…
Do child-care characteristics influence continued child bearing in Sweden? An investigation of the quantity, quality, and price dimension
Die Verfasser verknuepfen Daten der amtlichen Statistik mit regionalen Daten zu Kinderbetreuung, um den Einfluss zu untersuchen, den die Moeglichkeit von Kinderbetreuung auf die Entscheidung fuer ein zweites oder drittes Kind bei schwedischen Paaren in den Jahren 1997 und 1998 gehabt hat. Dabei werden verschiedene Dimensionen von Kindertagesbetreuung untersucht: der Umfang des Angebots, die Zahl der Kinder pro Betreuungsperson und die Kosten der …
Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland / Child Care and Fertility in Germany
Eine zentrale Rolle in der Diskussion um eine bessere Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf spielt die Versorgung mit bedarfsgerechter Kinderbetreuung. Eine umfassendes Angebot an Betreuungsplätzen fördert jedoch nicht nur die Müttererwerbstätigkeit, sondern könnte sich auch positiv auf Fertilitätsentscheidungen auswirken. Im vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der amtlichen Kinder- und…
Wo Mann sich traut - Heiratsentscheidungen westdeutscher Männer im räumlichen Kontext
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Effects of Early Life Family Events on Women's Late Life Labour Market Behaviour: An Analysis of the Relationship between Childbearing and Retirement in Western Germany
The relationship between a woman's reproductive history and her entry into retirement is not well-investigated yet. Will mothers exit the workforce earlier than childless women (as they have a weaker labour market orientation; as they are more likely to have a ‘male breadwinner’ in the household), or will they work longer to make-up for employment interruptions during their reproductive phase? We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …
Männer — Das „vernachlässigte“ Geschlecht in der Familienforschung
The participation of older Europeans in volunteer work
The contemporary discussion about the growing ‘burden of population ageing’ should not neglect the substantial productive potential of older people. Using micro-data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this paper examines the relationships between selected socio-demographic characteristics and the rates of participation in voluntary work in 10 European countries among those aged 50 or more years. The analysis …
Gendering family composition: Sex preferences for children and childbearing behavior in the Nordic countries
It has been argued that a society’s gender system may influence parents’ sex preferences for children. If this is true, one should expect to find no evidence of such preferences in countries with a high level of gender equality. In this article, we exploit data from population registers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden to examine continuities and changes in parental sex preferences in the Nordic countries during the past three to four de…
Parental Gender Preferences and Reproductive Behaviour: A Review of the Recent Literature
This paper reviews various theoretical approaches towards an explanation of parental gender preferences and empirical findings from developing as well as from industrialized countries, focusing on the role of gender preferences in reproductive decisions. Although various attempts have been made to shed light on the mechanisms underlying the observed patterns of sex preferences for children, a fully satisfying theoretical explanation is still not …
Proximity and Contacts Between Older Parents and Their Children: A European Comparison
Using data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this article continues and extends recent cross‐national research on proximity and contacts of older parents to their children. In addition to a brief description of the geography of families in 10 continental European countries, determinants of intergenerational proximity and contacts are examined. Even when microlevel factors are controlled for, the Mediterranean people…
Understanding parental gender preferences in advanced societies: Lessons from Sweden and Finland
Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the opportunity to compare childbearing dynamics and possible underlying sex
Gender and the Division of Household Labor in Older Couples: A European Perspective
Using microdata from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this study takes a cross-national perspective to investigate the division of household labor among older couples (aged 50 years or more). Across nine continental European countries, the authors find considerable variation in the overall distribution of housework between partners, with more egalitarian countries in northern Europe and more traditional countrie…
Produktives Altern und informelle Arbeit
Der demografische Strukturwandel moderner Gesellschaften lässt sich besonders deutlich in Europa beobachten (z.B. Grundy 1996; Billari/Kohler 2004). Als Folge dauerhaft niedriger Geburtenziffern und einer stetig steigenden Lebenserwartung findet ein gesellschaftlicher Alterungsprozess statt, dessen Konsequenzen Staat und Wirtschaft ebenso wie Familie und Individuum vor erhebliche Herausforderungen stellen. Entsprechend steht der demografische Wan…
Produktives Altern und informelle Arbeit in modernen Gesellschaften: Theoretische Perspektiven und empirische Befunde
Der Sammelband macht die Mehrdimensionalität des Themas "Produktives Altern und informelle Arbeit" deutlich. Die einzelnen Aufsätze unterscheiden sich nicht nur in ihrem Blickwinkel (internationale, nationale und lokale Perspektive), sondern beschäftigen sich auch mit unterschiedlichen Formen und Inhalten informeller Arbeit von à lteren (z.B. Ehrenamt, Nachbarschaftshilfe oder aber familiäre Pflege) und nutzen dazu unterschiedliche Untersuchungsm…
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