Population Issues

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: The Life Course Approach as an Interdisciplinary Framework for Population Studies

   • Pearl A. Dykstra, Leo J. G. van Wissen

   Pages 1-22

3. The Life Course: Models and Analysis

   • Frans J. Willekens

   Pages 23-51

4. From Youth to Adulthood: Understanding Changing Patterns of Family Formation from a Life Course Perspective

   • Aart C. Liefbroer

   Pages 53-85

5. Households, Families and Kin Networks

   • Anton Kuijsten

   Pages 87-122

6. Work, Savings and Social Security in a Life Course Perspective

   • Hendrik P. van Dalen, Harrie A. A. Verbon

   Pages 123-157

7. Residential Relocations in the Life Course

   • Clara H. Mulder, Pieter Hooimeijer

   Pages 159-186

8. Medical Demography in the Netherlands: Recent Advances, Future Challenges

   • Anton E. Kunst, Judith H. Wolleswinkel-van den Bosch, Johan P. Mackenbach

   Pages 187-228

9. Advances in the Microsimulation of Demographic Behavior

   • Pieter Hooimeijer, Anton Oskamp

   Pages 229-263

10. Epilogue: New Directions in Population Studies

    • Leo J. G. van Wissen, Pearl A. Dykstra

    Pages 265-275

11. Back Matter

    Pages 277-287

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This volume marks the end of an eight-year program of research on population issues, launched in 1990 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: The NWO Priority Program on Population Issues. Initiatives for this program of research were taken over ten years ago by Hans Van Ginkel-who became the first program chair - and Dirk Van De Kaa. The Dutch community of population scientists is deeply indebted to them for their early efforts. At the time, the program carried the name "Between Individual Development and Social Solidarity: Pop­ ulation and Society in a Period of Transition. " The goals of the Priority Program were threefold: To reduce the fragmentation of research on population issues; to increase collabora­ tion among population researchers with different disciplinary back­ grounds; and to strengthen the position of population studies in Dutch academe and in international forums. Looking back over eight years of programed research, we can safely say that the Priority Program has given an enormous impetus to population research in the Netherlands - as this volume attests. This program of research could not have been carried out success­ fully without the valuable contributions and constructive input of a large group of scientists. The scope and the focus of the Priority Program were defined by a preparatory committee chaired by Gerard Frinking.

• Demography
• Familie
• Nation
• Simulation
• knowledge
• population
• social security

• Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands

  Leo J. G. Wissen, Pearl A. Dykstra

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