Demography category: 971 books
The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa
The Unique Case of Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
"The heated Malthusian-Bosrupian debates still rage over consequences of high population growth, rapid urbanization, dense rural populations and young age structures in the face of drought, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, instability and the global economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of advanced statistical techniques including geo-additive models that link individual measures with area variables to account for spatial correlation; multilevel models that address the issue of clustering within family and...
Etudes Septembre 2014
Vers de nouvelles voies pour les divorcés remariés?
Language: French
Release Date: September 3, 2014
«La crainte d’une déstabilisation du niveau et des modes de vie donne naissance à une demande de protection dont la gauche ne sait pas s’emparer, favorisant l’émergence d’une protestation conservatrice. » Dominique Reynié.
« Comment des enfants élevés dans la foi chrétienne, qui...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Il y a près de trente ans, le Viêt Nam initiait sa transition vers une économie mixte avec l’adoption de la politique du Doi moi ou Renouveau. Alors que les générations précédentes avaient été marquées par la colonisation, les conflits armés et les difficultés économiques généralisées,...
Population ageing from a lifecourse perspective
Critical and international approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing....
City of Quarters
Urban Villages in the Contemporary City
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors...
The New American Suburb
Poverty, Race and the Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and without problems. However, recent data have shown that there are changing trends among U.S. suburbs. This book provides timely analyses of current suburban...
Demographic Change and Housing Wealth:
Home-owners, Pensions and Asset-based Welfare in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan...
Coping with Demographic Change in the Alpine Regions
Actions and Strategies for Spatial and Regional Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Europe’s population is ageing and decreasing. Demographic change is making not only regional and territorial adaptation necessary, but also new region-specific spatial planning and regional development. This publication focusses on demographic change and its implications for the economy and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this Handbook were published. The subject matter of labor economics continues to have at its core an attempt to systematically find empirical analyses that are consistent with a systematic and parsimonious theoretical...
Ageing in Advanced Industrial States
Riding the Age Waves - Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by low fertility and ever-increasing life expectancy....
by David A. Swanson, Jeff Tayman
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material. It examines hitherto unexplored methodological links between differing types of estimation from both the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book focuses on families and their changes in Taiwan and China. Traditional notions of what constitutes a family have been changing in China, Taiwan and other Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide interesting methodological and substantive contributions to the discourse on family...
The Declining Birth Rate in Rotterdam
A Statistical Analysis of the Drop in the Number of Children in 24644 Rotterdam Families During the Last 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013