Gustavo Bolívar : el hombre de las narcotelenovelas

El presente artículo reseñará la principal obra del creador de la narcotelenovela en Colombia, Gustavo Bolívar, quien desde su primer trabajo para la televisión sobre el tema del narcotráfico, Sin tetas no hay paraíso, no dejó de revolucionar el género a través de la escritura de sus siguientes obras: Tres Caínes y cada una de las temporadas de El capo.El present article ressenyarà la principal obra del creador de la narcotelenovel·la a Colòmbia, Gustavo Bolívar, qui des del seu primer treball per la televisió sobre el tema del narcotràfic, com és Sin tetas no hay paraíso, no va deixar de revolucionar el gènere a través de l'escriptura de les seves següents obres, com van ser Tres Caínes i cadascuna de les temporades de El capo.This article focuses on Gustavo Bolívar's work as a creator of the narcotelenovela, genre born in Colombia. Since his first work, Sin tetas no hay paraíso (Without breasts there is no paradise), he revolutions the gener with the writing of Tres Caínes (Three Caínes) and with the three seasons of El Capo

The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database

The Antwerp COR*-IDS database 2020 is a transformed and harmonized historical demographic database in a cross-nationally comparable format designed to be open and easy to use for international researchers. The database is constructed from the 2010 release of the Antwerp COR*-historical demographic database, which was created using a letter sample of the whole district of Antwerp (Flanders, Belgium). It has a total sample size of +/- 33,000 residents of Antwerp. The sample spans nearly seven decades. The data is collected from historical records: including population registers and vital registration records covering births, marriages, in/external migrations and deaths. The database covers up to three linked generations (in some cases more), and contains micro-data on individual level life courses, and relationships deriving from addressbased household composition methods. An important characteristic is the sample's large migrant population, including the timings of their demographic events and living arrangements, whilst resident in the district of Antwerp. In addition, the sample also contains a large array of occupational level information. This paper presents the processes, methodologies and documentation regarding the evaluation and development of a pre-existing historical database. This includes the systematic evaluation of the original samples, methodologies for address based reconstructing of households, and the geocoding of a historical database which took place during the current development of this new version of the database

Discussion on the debate: will policies to raise low-fertility countries work? Held at the IUSSP conference in July 2005, Tours

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Discussion note on the policy session held at the conference on 'postponement of childbearing in Europe' , held in Vienna, December 2005

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The transition to motherhood in Japan : a comparison with the Netherlands

This study examines low fertility by focusing on the age at which Japanese women give birth for the first time and comparing this with the timing of first birth for Dutch women. It combines the life-history and life-story approaches, and makes use of a wide variety of source materials. The life-history approach shows that Japanese women increasingly reject the traditional sequence of marriage and motherhood, while the experience of Dutch women exhibits a broadening range of different partnership and living arrangement pathways to first birth. The results of the application of the life-story approach show that the postponement of first birth is unplanned and of a cumulative nature. Japanese women are confronted by conflicting signals from two different constructed images of motherhood, that of the ‘new’ self-realising individual, and that of the ‘old’ wife and mother. On the one hand in the post-industrial society, women are increasingly expected to work, while on the other hand, they are still expected to marry and give birth. The cover of this book shows the author when she was a child with her mother. The picture is personal but at the same time captures many dimensions of this research. It was taken in the early 1970s, a period already characterised by quite low fertility in Japan and coinciding with the entry into the Second Demographic Transition. It was also the time when the so-called industrial household came under increasing pressure. The picture conveys a dual sense of tradition and modernity. It symbolises the different worlds of a generation of ‘mothers’ and ‘daughters’.

Nihon no shusseiritsu no kousatsu - oranda, youroppa karano shisatsu [Observation on Japanese low fertility based on the Dutch and European experiences]

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