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• Call for Papers for the 2026 Special Issue

  2025-02-26

  We welcome submissions to our planned special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Center for Demographic Studies, CED-CERCA), Aude Bernard (University of Queensland), and Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Center for Demographic Studies, CED-CERCA).

  Submission deadline: 15 May 2025

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• Our journal is turning 50!

  2025-01-28

  

  The 50th volume of Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) is a significant milestone in the journal’s history, offering us the opportunity to reflect on its development into a key platform for population research, major achievements, and future aspirations. In our anniversary editorial we offer unique insights into editorial processes, guiding principles, and strategic considerations that have and will continue to shape the journal’s identity and impact. Read the full story here.

   

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• Special Issue on „Changes in Educational Homogamy and Its Consequences“ published

  2024-11-22

  “Who mates with and marries whom?”

  Our recent special issue (SI) looks at the consequences of the educational expansion for mating patterns. The SI has been guest edited by Pia Blossfeld (University of Innsbruck), Stefani Scherer (University of Trento) and Wilfred Uunk (University of Innsbruck). Find their peer-reviewed editorial here .

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• Special Issue on “Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries” published

  2024-06-17

  This new Special Issue (SI) analyzes the demographic developments in Eastern Europe after the transformation of socialist countries in 1989/1990 in great detail. This SI has been guest edited by Gabriele Doblhammer (University of Rostock) and Zsolt Spéder (Hungarian Demographic Research Institute).

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• Heike Trappe and Roland Rau named new editors of CPoS

  2024-02-22

  CPoS welcomes its two new editors Heike Trappe and Roland Rau (both: University of Rostock) who succeed Frans Willekens.

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• Special Issue with first FReDA data analyses published

  2023-11-07

  Learn more about FReDA data in the recently published CPoS special issue “Family Research and Demographic Analysis – New Insights from the German Family Demography Panel Study”. 5 articles show the data’s rich research potential. FReDA is crucial for (future) demographic and family analyses, not only in Germany.

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• Special Issue on refugee migration to Europe published

  2022-12-21

  New CPoS special issue on "Refugee Migration to Europe – Current Challenges and Potentials for Cities and Regions" published. Read more in the Editorial by our guest editors Rainer Wehrhahn and Zine-Eddine Hathat (both: CAU Kiel University, Department of Geography). https://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/539

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• Special Issue on causal mechanisms in demographic research published

  2021-11-29

  New CPoS special issue on "The Identification of Causal Mechanisms in Demographic Research" published. Read more in the Editorial by our guest editors Johannes Huinink (University of Bremen, SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy) and Josef Brüderl (University of Munich, Department of Sociology). https://comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/469

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• Prof. Frans Willekens named new editor of CPoS

  2021-10-19

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• Special Issue on internal migration published

  2020-09-15

  New CPoS special issue on "The Role of Internal Migration as a Driver of Regional Population Change in Europe" published. Read more in the Editorial by our guest editors Philip Rees (School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK) and Nikola Sander (German Federal Institute for Population Research). https://comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/392

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