Descriptive Papers

Demographic Trends Around the Globe

CPoS' descriptive paper category: Papers in this category present a new empirical finding that relates to population change around the globe and its societal consequences in a specific country or a group of countries.

Vol. 51 (2026)

Comparing the Millennium and Pandemic Fertility Upticks

Contrasts of Geography, Age of Mother and Birth Order

Marion Burkimsher

Triangle Simplex Plot for Representing Multiple Cause of Death Dynamics

Elizabet Ukolova

Not Only Births, But Also Intentions: The Decline of Fertility Intentions and Increasing Uncertainties in Sweden, 2012-2021

Weiwen Lai, Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson

When Gender Trumps Skills: Employment Trajectories of Austrian Parents After Their First Birth

Claudia Reiter, Sonja Spitzer

Vol. 50 (2025)

Ideations and Intentions in the Transition to Adulthood: A Cross-European Comparison

Katrin Schwanitz, Valeria Ferraretto, Agnese Vitali, Francesco Rampazzo

Cross-border Reproductive Care in Czechia: Insights from National Registry Data

Adéla Volejníková, Anna Šťastná, Jiřina Kocourková

Fertility Intentions Across Five Decades in Norway

Lars Dommermuth, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik

Changes in Birth Seasonality in East and West Germany, 1946-2017

Risto Conte Keivabu

The Impact of Migration on Population Ageing in Asia 1990-2020: A Decomposition Analysis Using Prospective Age

Markus Dörflinger

Vol. 49 (2024)

Trust and Fertility Intentions in High-Trust Sweden: An Exploratory Analysis

Mark Gortfelder, Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson

Fertility Decline in Iceland, 2013-2022: Trends and Structures

Ari Klængur Jónsson

Educational Expansion as a Driver of Longer Working Lives?

Regression Decomposition Analysis of Changes in Labour Force Participation at Older Ages in Twenty-first Century Europe

Aart-Jan Riekhoff, Kati Kuitto

Vol. 48 (2023)

Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea

Bongoh Kye

Ukrainian Refugees in Germany: Evidence From a Large Representative Survey

Herbert Brücker, Andreas Ette, Markus M. Grabka, Yuliya Kosyakova, Wenke Niehues, Nina Rother, C. Katharina Spieß, Sabine Zinn, Martin Bujard, Adriana R. Cardozo Silva, Jean Philippe Décieux, Amrei Maddox, Nadja Milewski, Lenore Sauer, Sophia Schmitz, Silvia Schwanhäuser, Manuel Siegert, Hans Steinhauer, Kerstin Tanis

Spatial Patterns of Recent Ukrainian Refugees in Germany: Administrative Dispersal and Existing Ethnic Networks

Lenore Sauer, Andreas Ette, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Manuel Siegert, Kerstin Tanis

Trends and Determinants of Birth Registration Completeness in Zimbabwe, 2005-2015

Ronald Musizvingoza, Naomi N. Wekwete, Kudzaishe Mangombe, Garikai Zinumwe