Population and demography

Argues that sociology should be understood as a population science, focusing on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations.

Die Beitrage dieses Buchs sind einem Phanomen auf der Spur, das widerspruchlich anmutet: Wir, Computernutzerinnen und User, sind im digitalen Raum in alle Ewigkeit wiederzufinden.

This book applies environmental, social and governance (ESG) to issues of sustainable development in healthcare.

To date, research into urban economics, regional science and economic geography has predominantly focused on the firm and industry as the key units of analysis in order to understand economic development; however, the past few decades have seen a growing interest in the role played by talent in the knowledge economy.

Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying housing and ageing issues and relevant policy analysis in China, and beyond.

The New York Times-bestselling author investigates the global plot behind the bad food, bad water, bad drugs, and bad air putting our lives at risk.

In der modernen Dienstleistungsgesellschaft werden spezielle wie alltägliche Aufgaben in die Hände von Dienstleistenden übergeben.

TheSilverMarketPhenomenon In the developed countries, the dominant factor in the next society will be something to which most people are only beginning to pay attention: the rapid growth in the older po- lation and the rapid shrinking of the younger generation.

The book comprises three chapters, with each chapter assigned various type data such as time series data, cross sectional data and panel data.

Given current demographic trends, nearly one in five U.

Boris Yeltsin's attempts at democratic reform have plunged a long troubled Russia even further into turmoil.

This monograph deals with econometric models for the analysis of event counts.

The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, more than any other event in the 1850s, provoked a widespread, emotionally charged reaction among northern blacks.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Entwicklung der sorbischen Bevölkerung von 1832 bis 1945" verfügbar.

Remarkably, most conventional wisdom about the shifting balance of world power virtually ignores one of the most fundamental components of power: population.

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan.

Die Arbeitstechnik des Ingenieurs und insbesondere auch des Konstrukteurs ist heute zunehmend durch die Anwendung systematischer Problemlösungsmethoden mit und ohne Rechnereinsatz gekennzeichnet.

This overview includes chapters on child mortality, adult mortality, fertility, proximate determinants, marriage, internal migration, international migration, and the demographic impact of AIDS.

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant.

This engaging collection of essays explores the many ways Americans of every race, class, gender, and political leaning experienced the Baby Boom.

In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power.

This book deals with issues related to undernutrition and anaemia in India.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of child well-being within the context of Indian states, focusing on the progress made in eight Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets.

This book compares the population history of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China to understand such emergent changes as extremely low fertility in Korea and Taiwan, compressed urbanization and a massive diaspora from Korea, early population aging relative to economic development in China, and changing patterns of cross-border migration in the region.

This volume aims to present the essential work of geographer and historical ecologist William M.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States.

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed.

Durch "Inselbildung in Fertigung und Verwaltung", ein vom BMFT gefördertes Projekt zur Humanisierung der Arbeit, wurde ein Industriebetrieb in Nordenham umstrukturiert.

"Las múltiples dimensiones de la despoblación activan también diversas perspectivas de análisis, tanto científicas como prácticas.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the structure, determinants and consequences of changes in sub-Saharan African families, thereby representing an Afrocentric description of the emerging trends.

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.

The Gwich in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century.

This book studies optimal economic growth in a closed economy which experiences non-stable population growth.

Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a populationthat varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status,and generation.

Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?

Les hommes, pensait Kant, sont à la fois poussés à s’associer et enclins à s’isoler.

Population Dynamics fills the gap between the classical supply-side population theory of Malthus and the modern demand-side theory of economic demography.

The mapping of human genes is proceeding rapidly.

The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Population covers the major topics of the discipline of demography, including current substantive, methodological and theoretical issues of interest, as well as new and emerging topics in the field.

Ageing population poses a set of complex policy and dilemmas for social security systems, intensifying the concerns about rising expenditures in health care and long-term care for elderly.

African Americans constitute one of the most interesting and dynamic components of the population of the United States.

The anti-causal prophecies of last century have been disproved.

Thema dieses Buches ist eine breite Darstellung des Gebietes Arbeitsmarktökonomik, wie sie bisher in der deutschsprachigen Literatur kaum zu finden ist.