This book focuses on first-generation graduate students in the US and the graduate or post-baccalaureate programs that house and educate these students.
This book utilizes quantitative research methods to identify the relationship between the level of mindfulness and demographic factors among university students in Malaysia.
This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice-and a necessary component of modern healthcare.
This book focuses on the links between family, education, and employment systems in the Asian developed economies, proposing that these three systems and their interrelations are powerful factors causing the low fertility in Asia.
Non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) have become essential solutions for better living, preventing disease, and self-care, in addition to biomedical treatments, and for increasing longevity without loss of quality of life.
This book explores the unresolved paradox at the heart of population aging, namely how to account for the fact that death rates from most non-communicable diseases rise as people age, yet aggregate death rates from such diseases have decreased overall despite an increasingly aging population.
A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on childrenthe greatest moral crisis humanity faces todayby a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1B provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, presenting comprehensive portraits of both social and theoretical issues.
This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.
Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century.
Grundlage des Titels ist das "demopass"-Projekt (= Passung im demografischen Wandel), das auf einer Befragung von über 1000 Mitarbeitern fünf deutscher Unternehmen basiert.
In diesem Buch wird versucht, die Theorieansätze der Technikgenerationen mit jenen der sozialen Ungleichheit auf eine Weise zu verbinden, dass Rückschlüsse auf die Technikakzeptanz, die Technikkompetenz und die Techniknutzung im höheren Lebensalter abgeleitet werden können.
This book is the first-ever volume which provides comprehensive information on demographic, health and development at the level of 640 districts in India.
Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of economic migration, legalization measures, irregular migration, East-West flows, the role of business and employer associations, new positions amongst trade unions, and service sector liberalization.
This book addresses nine relevant questions: Will population growth reduce the growth rate of per capita income because it reduces the per capita availability of exhaustible resources?
This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family.
