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1. A graphic representation of the process of population renewal — a demographic teaching aid -- 2. On methodological aspects in the analysis of nuptiality : an application to the Netherlands -- 3. Prognostic implications of early family building behaviour the use of survey data in estimating ultimate family size -- 4. Evolution of the knowledge about and use of contraceptive methods among married women in the Dutch-speaking community of Belgium, 1966–1976: preliminary results of NEGO III -- 5. Alternative demographic evolutions for Belgium and their impact on macro-economic growth : a quantitative approach -- 6. Labour force participation of married women under 35 years of age in the Netherlands -- 7. Employment of married women -- 8. Public opinion and foreign workers.

In recent years Latin American countries have enacted sweeping privatisation measures and major trade, financial and tax reforms, but they have moved much more slowly to reform their pension systems and labour laws. This pattern of reform partly reflects differences in the intensity of organised labour's opposition to the reforms. Organised labour has undertaken greater efforts to block labour law reforms and, to a lesser extent, pension reforms, because these measures impose severe losses on more unions than other types of reforms. These greater efforts, moreover, have had significant effects on policy outcomes. The article shows how organised labour reacted quite differently to various types of market-oriented reforms in Argentina and Mexico in the 1990s, and describes how the reaction of the unions helped shape the fate of the reform proposals.

Abstract: The European Commission?s Action Plan for a more Coherent European Contract Law is an important step towards a European Code of Contracts. However, it is doubtful whether such a Code would make European contract law more coherent and whether it would make the internal market function more smoothly, as the Commission expects. Nevertheless, there may be good reasons for such an (optional) code. Those reasons should play a more prominent role in the debate.