University of Groningen
Changing regional inequalities in ageing across Europe
Kashnitsky, Ilya
DOI:
10.33612/diss.134195227
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Changing regional
inequalities in ageing
across Europe
Ilya Kashnitsky
Propositions
1. Demography is a science of transitions.2. The analysis of the changing relative differences between the populations–convergence or divergence–lies at the core of demography.
3. Comparative analysis of population age structures can be used to back-track the demographic processes shaping them.
4. Changing regional inequalities in population age structures matter beyond economic performance of the corresponding populations. 5. Converging components do not
imply overall convergence. 6. Relying on distributions rather
than summary measures enriches convergence analysis.
7. It does matter whether the changes that affect the overall distribution strongest happen in the upper or the lower part of the distribution. 8. The ongoing urbanization does not
increase the urban-rural differences in population age structures, rather the variability of population age structures within urban and rural groups of regions increases. 9. Dutch people are direct, which
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