Social Forces Abstract This study investigates two concurrent trends across Europe and North America: the increasing instability of parental unions and men’s rising contributions to household work. Beca

Journal of European Integration Abstract The series of recent crises (EURO, refugees, backsliding, Brexit) challenge the self-portrayal of the European Union (EU) as a community of shared values. Agains

Demography 57, 147-169 Abstract In this study, we provide demographic insight into the still relatively new family form of same-sex marriage. We focus on period trends in same-sex marriage formation and

July 24 to 26 Essex university arrange Understanding Society Research Conference. Institute employee Kenisha Russell Jonsson gives a lecture with "Cohabitation or Marriage? The socioeconomic and famil

The goals of growth and competitiveness as promoted by the European Union are discussed in the context of forecasts claiming the European population to be declining in size and growing increasingly ol

Nordisk Socialrättslig Tidskrift/Nordic Social Law Journal 38.2024 Patricia Mindus & Anna-Sara Lind (eds.) Abstract 2023 marked thirty years since European Union citizenship was introduced as the Trea

David Owen, Professor of Social & Political Philosophy, University of Southampton. Abstract This article argues that the practical difficulties and normative dilemmas at stake in the European refuge

A monster in the making. Interview with Matthias Matthijs on the euro crisis and democracy

What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. We are of course talking about the european union and the

Kirk Scott, the Institute for Futures Studies and Lund University Union formation and entry into parenthood are perhaps the most important transitions to adulthood. While much is known about the family

Martin Kolk

I am a demographer with an interest in all major demographic processes (fertility, mortality, union formation, and migration), often with an intergenerational component. I am also interested in if the