Population and demography

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels.

 During the last decades the appearance of a family has changed substantially.

While the Baby Boomer generation has consistently commanded widespread attention-both scholarly and popular-little has been written about Generation X, the 46 million Americans born between the mid-1960s and late 1970s.

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.

Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "e;folk"e; categories are fuzzy.

Marking the 250th anniversary of his birth, this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study reassesses Thomas Malthus''s contested achievements and legacies.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

Korea and Germany are commonly described as emblematic examples of divided nations.

Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling.

Japan's Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order.

The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery.

This book is devoted to the study of children''s skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts.

First published in 1978, this book was written at a time when belief was high in Western-guided economic development of the emerging countries.

This book examines the impact of population growth and urbanization on the household registration system in China.

A clear, comprehensive survey of British history from 1900 to the present, integrating political, economic, social and cultural history.

"e;I felt like the luckiest person on earth when I not only met Chawadee, but had her as my personal food navigator through Bangkok.

This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers.

Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse analytique des sources de données et des études sur l’état et la dynamique la population du Cameroun.

Top researchers in the field introduce interdisciplinary perspectives on senescence, presenting new insights and cutting-edge research.

This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old.

Savannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation.

Since 1987, the investigation of the relationship between female labour market behaviour and fertility, which forms part of the research programme of the Economic Institute / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Labour Market and Distribution Issues (CIAV) of Utrecht University, also became a part of the research programme of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI).

This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits.

America's urban population has been growing while rural areas are declining - especially after the great recession.

Federal household surveys today face several significant challenges including: increasing costs of data collection, declining response rates, perceptions of increasing response burden, inadequate timeliness of estimates, discrepant estimates of key indicators, inefficient and considerable duplication of some survey content, and instances of gaps in needed research and analysis.

Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability addresses the economic consequences of uncertainty in demographic forecasting.

Race is once again a contentious topic in America, as shown by the divisive rise of Donald Trump and the activism of groups like Black Lives Matter.

This book provides a systematic framework for interpreting the fertility decline in Japan.

First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between women's roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and non-government policy and future research in the field.

Quelles ont été les grandes vagues d’immigration en France ?

In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the Khomani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, lamented, "e;We have been made into nothing.

Welche Bildungsangebote brauchen Menschen im Übergang vom Beruf in den Ruhestand?

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

Youth are, by definition, the future.

This volume marks the end of an eight-year program of research on population issues, launched in 1990 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: The NWO Priority Program on Population Issues.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the major changes and transformations in Ukrainian society, from its independence in 1991, through to 2018.

This book, originally published in 1983, demonstrates the importance of seaports in the growth of less-developed countries.

Exhaustively updated, this second edition provides a current assessment of world population and the range of economic, social, and environmental issues it raises.

At the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet under the scrutiny of the US and Mercosur (the large South American trade bloc), Arabs have long fulfilled what author John Tofik Karam calls a manifold destiny.

At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million.

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Volume 6 presents papers that tackle concerns in industrial and labor relations.

Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the 'best' or 'sole' solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and other countries') declining demographic situations.

In this book, leading academics and practitioners in the field of reproductive health address topics such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and prenatal health, sexuality and reproductive rights by examining a number of critical issues in these areas.