Population and demography

The New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and opportunities of ageing as a global force.

Condensé des activités des Journées Jeunes Chercheurs du réseau Recherche Habitat Logement, cet ouvrage analyse d’abord différentes manières d’habiter en étudiant les relations sociales qui leur correspondent et les choix résidentiels qui les caractérisent.

This book of peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistics and demography is the third of four volumes from the 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS 2024), held in Bari, Italy, on June 17-20, 2024.

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What's the real story behind the 2000 presidential election fiasco?

Many election officials look to electronic voting systems as a means for improving their ability to more effectively conduct and administer elections.

Recent debates on migration have demonstrated the important role of concepts in academic and political discourse.

This book presents a factual analysis of the history of population policy, especially the fertility policy, mainly the reproduction of the policy since the founding of New China, especially the promotion of one child per couple, including the background of the policy's introduction, the formulation of the decision, the prediction of possible problems, and the choice of decision to deal with them.

This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the old will be preserved, and how their standards of living compare to those experienced by the old in the recent past.

This book offers an ideal introduction to the analysis of demographic data.

Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Menschen ihre Renteneintrittsentscheidung treffen.

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

The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy.

Today, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all driven by the coming explosion in the number of people over the age of 65.

"e;Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists"e; covers the complete process of Bayesian statistical analysis in great detail from the development of a model through the process of making statistical inference.

Das Phänomen der Überalterung und der absehbare Rückgang der Bevölkerung finden immer mehr Aufmerksamkeit auch in der breiten Öffentlichkeit.

With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging.

This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in the United States and identifies patterns and relationships that contribute to the development of a more complete understanding of the incidence and intensity of deprivation.

Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "e;home.

This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities'' chief characteristics.

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Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago.

Expelling the Germans focuses on how Britain perceived the mass movement of German populations from Poland and Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War.

 With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies.

This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States.

Die Menschheit ist ungeheuer erfolgreich.

This book explores how studies of language and aging can be applied to build an aging-friendly society, drawing on the socio-pragmatic turn in language and aging to examine the perspectives of older adults experiencing aging through a linguistic lens.

Immigrants living in US cities face myriad obstacles to accessing quality health care.

This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course.

Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life.

Survival analysis deals with the distribution of life times, essentially the times from an initiating event such as birth or the start of a job to some terminal event such as death or pension.

This book presents an evaluation of the impacts of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis on regional economies and subsequent reconstruction, as well as regional revitalization by the spatial economic model and dynamic macro and regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models.

South Africa is an example of a relatively successful political transition.

In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks.

By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion.

Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century.

Student~ interested in world populations and demography inevitably need to know China.

James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle.

This handbook introduces readers to the concept of elderly entrepreneurship, and analyzes key issues concerning individuals and institutions.

Thisbook provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all Europeanwelfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-basedstudies and comparative chapters.

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Scottish Migration since 1750: Reasons and Results begins a fresh chapter in migration studies using new methods and unpublished sources to map the course of Scottish migration between 1750 and 1990.

A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day.