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First, even though the economic and cultural differences between these countries are relatively small there is one important difference: Belgium is predominantly Catholic, whereas The Netherlands has about equal proportions of Catholics and Protestants. Second, if the Second Demographic Transition implies that there is one common pattern of change in different European countries and that differences across countries are due to the fact that countries are in a different stage of the transition process, and if it is assumed that the transition process started earlier in Protestant countries than in Catholic countries, one would expect The Netherlands to be in a further stage of the transition process than Belgium. Thus an in-depth comparison of changes in family formation and fertility behaviour between both countries may give us more insight in the question of whether there is one common transition process. The comparison of fertility and family survey-data in both countries brings us to the core question of whether there is one common explanation for differences between countries in various types of fertility and family behaviour under consideration, namely fertility regulation, the choice of living arrangement after leaving the parental home, and the labour force participation of mothers.
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Book Title: Diversity in Family Formation
Book Subtitle: The 2nd Demographic Transition in Belgium and The Netherlands
Editors: Joop Beer, Fred Deven
Series Title: European Studies of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9512-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6461-0Published: 30 September 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5521-7Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9512-4Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1381-3579
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 141
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Social Sciences, general