Population and demography

This book examines the processes for social integration and social cohesion among young people, drawing on data collected from the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) study, which covered 35 studies.

This monograph examines changes in the American public school population from 1900 to 2010.

The social sciences share a mission to shed light on human nature and society.

This book examines the fundamentals of Jewish demography and sociology around the world.

This book deals with macro and micro aspects of population change and their inter-face with socio-economic factors and impact.

This book provides new theories, applications and quantitative methods in demography, population studies and statistics.

This volume examines migration between Africa and Europe, rather than just from Africa to Europe.

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On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health.

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local  -  labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus.

This book explores the life of economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis and the key demographic instrument named after him: the Lexis diagram.

This authoritative and comprehensive edited volume presents current research on how demography can contribute to generating scientific knowledge and evidence concerning refugees and forced migration, developing evidence based policy recommendations on protection for forced migrants and reception of refugees, and revealing the determinants and consequences of migration for origin and destination regions and communities.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques.

This book introduces and applies the stochastic modeling techniques and the first exit time theory in demography through describing the theory related to the health state of a population and the introduced health state function.

This book explores how low fertility levels could fundamentally change a country's population and society.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This book discusses the question of how a regional economy can develop under the influence of an ageing and declining population, and how regional development policies can help make labor markets more resilient and more inclusive.

This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective.

This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer's perspective.

This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities.

This manual provides an overview of China's administrative geography, history, and populations of all 31 provinces, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

This book calls upon us to rethink and reboot the European Union.

Adopting a longitudinal approach, this book examines the dynamics of union and family formation in France and its effects on various aspects of life, such as employment, intergenerational transfers, etc.

This book contains a collection of chapters about the Jewish family across different parts of the world, with contributions representing Africa (Ivory Coast and Ethiopia), Latin America, Australia, Europe (Germany), Russia, Israel, Canada, Indian families in Canada, and a comparative chapter of Ba'a lot Teshuva in the US and Argentina.

This book examines issues of race and policing through the lens of representative bureaucracy theory.

This textbook focuses on the cohort change ratio (CCR) method.

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations, and community renewal and regeneration efforts.

This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics.

This book makes a thorough investigation of the population problem issues in India from diverse angles- demographic, policy and programme.

This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the labor force grows.

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This book is a practical, step-by-step introduction to microsimulation in demography.

This book brings together selected peer-reviewed contributions from various research fields in statistics, and highlights the diverse approaches and analyses related to real-life phenomena.

This book demonstrates different statistical techniques for analyzing health-related data as well as providing new techniques for forecasting and/or projecting the incidence of diseases/disorders.

This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa.

This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography.

This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth.

This book is an outcome of the symposium "e;Towards Earth Friendly Use of Resources and Energy,"e; organized by the Nagoya University Center of Excellence Program "e;From Earth System Science to Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies"e; and presents papers by four eminent researchers.

This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global.

This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline.

This first-of-its-kind volume addresses the myriad of issues relating to-and reviews the plethora of responses to--premature births in the United States, both in national context and compared with other countries.

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.

This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies, from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments.

This collection challenges the popular but abstract concept of nudging, demonstrating the real-world application of behavioral economics in policy-making and technology.

Combining statistical analyses and personal interviews, this book examines the phenomenon of adult children in the United States who have returned to living with their parents in the family home.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This bookhighlights the latest research findings from the 46th International Meeting ofthe Italian Statistical Society (SIS) in Rome, during which both methodologicaland applied statistical research was discussed.

This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government.

This volume presents state of the art analyses from scholars dealing with a range of demographic topics of current concern, including longevity, mortality and morbidity, migration, and how population composition impacts intergenerational transfer schemes.