Population and demography

​In diesem Buch rückt das „gute Leben“ im hohen Alter in den Fokus: So ist in den westlichen Industrienationen ein stetiger Anstieg der allgemeinen Lebenserwartung zu verzeichnen.

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

Discover the origins and consequences of human movement over time, from the 16th-century Age of Discovery to 21st-century immigration politics.

"e;The education to work transition of young people is key to a successful work-life and to fight youth unemployment.

Die Autoren stellen die Ergebnisse des Projekts IER-SEK zusammenfassend vor.

This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

An in-depth look at how U.

By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate.

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life.

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

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic traits.

European countries, including the DIALOG countries, have faced a major de- graphic change and transition in the last thirty years.

This book discusses what is often called the "e;Great Leap Famine"e;, which occurred in China during the years from 1959 to 1961.

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

A lively and original study tracing the development of ''laziness'' as a way to understanding emerging civic culture in the Ottoman Empire.

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

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.

This book deals with models that can capture the behavior of individuals and groups over time.

This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century.

Gone are the days when mobility was nearly always a question of having a vehicle.

The book focuses on responsible living as the individual's contribution to sustainable development.

China, the world's most populous nation, will enter a period of rapid aging very shortly that will redefine that country.

Handbook of the Economics of Marketing, Volume One: Marketing and Economics mixes empirical work in industrial organization with quantitative marketing tools, presenting tactics that help researchers tackle problems with a balance of intuition and skepticism.

This volume unpacks the phenomenon of skipped generation households-where children live with their grandparents and without their parents-as they become an increasingly common family dynamic in Nigeria and globally.

In fast allen Demokratien Europas werden rechtsextreme Tendenzen mit Beginn des 21.

Internal migration serves as one of the key contributing factors to population change involving not only change in the numbers of people, but also a change in composition and structure of local populations.

This book examines the relationship between retirement and health of older people in Japan's super-aging society and provides a key to understanding the remarkable longevity of the population.

Despite the twenty-first century's often being referred to as the Asian Century-indicating hope for economic growth and the rebalancing of the global order-population aging and stagnation present an existential threat to the success of China and other territories of Pacific Asia (namely Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea).

Die zunehmende Technisierung von Alter und Pflege ist nicht nur mit Chancen, sondern auch mit zahlreichen Gefahren verbunden.

This eight-volume encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging.

Exploring tailored family planning strategies for marginalized groups, Family Planning and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh delves into comparative insights from Asian contexts, providing actionable approaches to empower and transform communities, foster sustainable development and improve reproductive health outcomes.

Robert Woods examines the changing population history of England and Wales beween 1837 and 1914.

Selten bot sich das Weltgeschehen komplexer und widersprüchlicher dar als heute.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

Bernhard Riederer untersucht Auswirkungen der Elternschaft auf Glück und Zufriedenheit.

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1A, provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance and healthcare costs.

This book deals with the process of the diffusion of cohabitation in Europe and discusses its impact upon fundamental changes in family formation.

This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences- specifically, here, demography and statistics-from the seventeenth century to the present.

The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas.

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In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador.

Raymondo provides a step-by-step guide through the complex issues associated with the methods of producing population estimates and projections.