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Current topic: Family policy in developed countries

• Modes of family policy seen through the eyes of researchers

• Fertility and government attitudes to it in different countries of the world

• Contemporary differences in family policy of developed countries

• Ratios of family allowances and earnings

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Social expenditure in the EU-28

• Among G20 countries, the EU-28 spends the most on social protection - more than a quarter of GDP

• In EU-28 countries, expenditure on social protection ranges from 14% of GDP in Latvia to 34% in France

• The main source of expenditure for social protection is still social contributions and deductions, but their share fell in 2013

• Two-thirds of expenditures on social protection in the EU-28 are associated with old age, disease and treatment

• Net payments make up 92% of total social protection expenditure in the EU-28

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Employment of mothers in the first years of a child’s life: a review of studies of its impact on children’s development

• The birth of a child as a factor in the income security of women. How large is Russia’s “motherhood penalty”?

• Dynamics of total income and subjective perception of the material condition of Russian women in the first years after a child’s birth

• Family policy in connection with fertility and the wellbeing of families with children. A data analysis by country

Take care of women!

• The ban on abortion: a gross violation of women’s rights

• The position of the Russia Ministry of Health on the issue of excluding abortion from Compulsory Health Insurance

• Take care of girls!

In the vastness of Russia

• In the past 10 years, life expectancy for women has increased by 4.4 years, for men – 6.6. years

• Topilin believes that in the coming years life expectancy in Russia may reach 74 years

• Life expectancy in Moscow will have risen to 78.7 years by 2020

• All-Russian Civic Forum will seek a model of the welfare state

• Russia needs state insured pension combined with a funded one created by citizens themselves

• Over 40% of Russians have begun saving money on food in past six months

• Will real incomes of Russians recover by the end of 2018?

• Ministry of Labor proposes to temporarily stop indexing maternity capital

• Regions to be allocated funds for support of large families

• In Russia, a strategy may be developed for promoting the interests of women

• Among Russia’s large cities, Moscow leads in “family sustainability index”

• In Russia, the number of registered unemployed has decreased

• Ministry of Economic Development expects to reduce unemployment rate in Russia to 5.7% by 2019

• In Russia work 40% of all labor migrants from Ukraine

• In Moscow, there are about 1.37 million foreigners

• Will migrants in Russia not be held liable for a first offense?

• Russia may reduce quota for temporary residence of foreigners

• Rospotrebnadzor names diseases migrants bring to St. Petersburg

• Russians still have negative stereotype of migrants

• Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan named most sober regions of Russia

• Ministry of Health is against lowering minimum retail price for vodka

• Russian universities to get “anti-smoking” rooms

• The number of victims of road accidents in Russia in the first nine months decreased by 13.4%

• Mortality on Russian roads decreasing faster than forecasted

• Head of Ministry of Labor proposes counselling instead of abortion ban

• Government sends bill on baby box ban back for reworking

• Authorities propose to vaccinate children against rotavirus infection before traveling to Sochi

• Chief transplant surgeon forecasts increase in requests for lung transplants

• About 23 million adult Russians will undergo state medical exam this year

• Experts warn of spending cuts on Russian health care

• In Russian, budget expenditures on maternal and child health will be reduced threefold

• Russia’s 2010 heat wave was one of the deadliest in the world

World news

• Over the past 25 years life expectancy has increased in 191 countries by an average of 10 years

• By the year 2030 China will have more than 500 million people over 60 years old

• The population of Ukraine is 42,642,400 people

• Do Germans have few children due to “high” cost of children?

• In Scotland starting in 2017 authorities will give babies a box with gifts

• 58.3% of Ukrainians live below the poverty line

• IOM reports poverty of internally displaced persons in Ukraine

• Germany decides to cut social benefits for migrants

• New Zealand tightens immigration policy

• Latvia simplifies entry of labor into country

• Belarus and EU to sign declaration on migration cooperation

• New UN Secretary-General calls for distributing refugees throughout world

• Merkel promises Niger €17 million to fight illegal migration

• Costa Rica and Panama are asking for international assistance due to migration crisis

• More than 317,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by sea in 2016

• 30,000 Kazakhstan citizens leaving the country each year for permanent residence abroad

• Child mortality in Tajikistan has been halved

• In Latvia, women go crazy more often than men, but men more often hit the bottle

• Single-parent families affect the appearance of bad habits in children

• Every seven seconds in the world a girl under 15 gets married

• Hillary Clinton supports lifting restrictions on abortions and same-sex marriage

• Marine Le Pen has promised to deal with same-sex marriage

• In Mexico, a petition against gay marriage has gathered almost 600,000 signatures

• There is nonetheless a limit to human life

The newspapers write about…

• “Life” on family policy

• “Kommersant” on the adoption of orphans

• “REGNUM” on the baby-box ban and other initiatives of Mizulina

• “Russkaya vesna” on abortion and the fight against it

• “Gazeta Wyborcza” on the consequences of the “Stop abortion” project in Poland

• “Kommersant” on anonymous obstetrics

• “RBK” on saving money on maternal and child health

• “RBK” on financing medicine and education

• “Kommersant” on life expectancy in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on reducing alcohol consumption in Russia

• “TASS” on banning the sale of alcohol in Yakut villages

• “Life” on the “Safe Work” program

• “RBK” on mortality growth in hospitals

• “Kommersant” on the ranking of doctors

• “Novaya Gazeta” on aging

• “BKS Ekspress” on the US economy and demography

• “Polit.ru” on migration and demography in Germany

• “EastRussia” on demographic development of the Far East

• “Rosbalt” and “Birzhevoy Lider” on emigration from Russia

• “Ekonomika sevodnya” on the consequences of introducing a visa regime between Russia and Ukraine

• “iq.hse.ru” on migration: 5 facts

• “Novosti Federatsii” on “Russia for Russians”

• “Rosbalt” on migrant-phobia

• “Kommersant” on the unemployed in the US

• “RBK” on labor equality of women

• “RBK” on the (almost forgotten) shuttle merchants

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on gray income

• “Vedomosti” on the outlook of former Russian Germans

• “Polit.Ru” on the deportations of peoples

• “Gazeta.ua” on the victims of the Holodomor

• “Izvestiya” on crime in Russia

• “Kommersant-Dengi” and “Kommersant” on obesity

• “Gazeta.Ru” on Family Day

Read books and magazines

• Effectiveness of Russian demographic policy

• Emigration from Russia at the turn of the 21^st century

• Guidelines for using administrative sources and sample surveys to measure international migration in the CIS countries

• Women of Russia in the 21^st century. Gender studies.

• Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2016

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya” (“Sociological Studies”) and “Problemy prognozirovaniya” (“Problems of Forecasting”)

• Contents of the journal “Demography”

Demographic digest

• Do restrictive asylum and visa policies increase irregular migration into Europe?

• Gendered Authorship and Demographic Research: An Analysis of 50 Years of Demography

• BONUS: Scientific reviewers come out of the shadows

Profession: researcher

• Sociological methods in the study of fertility. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• 80 years since the birth of Boris Borisovich Prokhorov

• Lyudmila Petrovna Shakhotko has left us