Demography category: 971 books
Changing Texas
Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Drawing on nearly thirty years of prior analyses of growth, aging, and diversity in Texas populations and households, the authors of Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge examine key issues related to future Texas population change and its socioeconomic implications....
by Sarah O. Meadows, Laura L. Miller, Jeremy N. V. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This report explores the applicability of neighborhood theory and social indicators research to understanding the quality of life in and around military bases. It also highlights gaps in neighborhood study methodology that need to be addressed in future research. Finally, it outlines how a more in-depth neighborhood analysis of military installations could be conducted.
Negotiating the Life Course
Stability and Change in Life Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Pathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades. Many of our assumptions about leaving home, starting new relationships and having children have been turned upside down. It is now almost as common to have children prior to marriage as afterwards, and certainly much more...
Japan’s Population Implosion
The 50 Million Shock
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This cutting edge collection examines Japan’s population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan’s social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy. Considering the failures of past Japanese policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book examines potential economic opportunities that countries can experience when fertility rates fall and the average life expectancy of the working age population increases. It presents detailed demographic and economic analysis of middle-income countries throughout the world in order to show...
Choices and Constraints
Gender Differences in the Employment Expectations of Final Year Undergraduates in a University in Central China
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The changes of populations are determined by fertility, mortality and migration. On the national level, international migration is a factor of increasing demographic, economic, social and political importance. This book addresses the debate on the impact of international migration and economic activity...
by Stanley K. Smith, Jeff Tayman, David A. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book focuses on the methodology and analysis of state and local population projections. It describes the most commonly used data sources and application techniques for four types of projection methods: cohort-component, trend extrapolation, structural models, and microsimulation. It covers the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book examines the methodological problems of accounting for the dead in armed conflicts as well as how the process itself is open to manipulation and controversy. Inspired by the work of the International Practitioner Network of casualty recording organizations, the book features thematic analysis,...
Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility
Understanding Population Trends and Processes - Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support. This book examines some of the important trends that have underpinned reductions in...
Ageing in East Asia
Challenges and Policies for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Ageing populations present considerable challenges to welfare states internationally, and East Asia is no exception. Demographics show that countries in East Asia either have the highest proportion of older people, or the speed at which their population is ageing is faster than anywhere else in the...
by Toru Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This book provides a unique comparative view of the extremely low fertility and drastic population aging in Eastern Asian countries. After discussing demographic and political developments of Japan in detail as a reference case, accelerated changes in Korea, Taiwan and China are interpreted with a...
Who Marries Whom?
Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Marriage and social inequality are closely interrelated. Marriage is dependent on the structure of marriage markets, and marriage patterns have consequences for social inequality. This book demonstrates that in most modern societies the educa tional system has become an increasingly important marriage...
Population Change in the United States
Socioeconomic Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This new volume maps the complex interplay of demographic and socioeconomic changes in the United States, where rapid aging and ethnic diversification are merely the most salient of the many issues with major long-term implications. Drawing on The United States Census Bureau’s post-2010 detailed...