Population and demography

The first full scale survey of the demographic history of America in one volume.

This book discusses the relationship between women's labour force participation and fertility rates in developed nations.

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.

In May 2002 Timor Leste (East Timor) emerged as a new nation after centuries of foreign rule and decades of struggle for independence.

This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China's poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society.

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

This book provides quantitative and applied methodologies in the Covid-19 era exploring important issues in demography, population studies, and health.

This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introduction to eurrent demographie methods.

This five-volume documentary collection--culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials--reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement.

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model.

Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks andharms through regulatory interventions is among the most importantresponsibilities of the government.

The book examines contemporary urban challenges andopportunities within the context of the traditional Malthusian theory.

Ziel dieser Studie ist es, die Situation der beruflichen Pflege aus Sicht der Pflegekräfte in Rheinland-Pfalz nachzuzeichnen.

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of economic vulnerability among older adults.

Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with, but not limited to, race, gender, class and sexuality) are produced.

Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations.

This book highlights historical and current perspectives on population issues in the Bengali-speaking states of India (i.

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

One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present.

Jean-Pierre BOCQUET-APPEL CNRS, Paris, France The written data used by demographers essentially cover the last five centuries.

A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe''s oldest and most influential cities.

Grandchildhood in Multigenerational Living: Practices, Meanings, Relations is the first book to sociologically analyse grandchild-grandparent relationships from the perspective of grandchildren.

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Tokaido, which comprises 15 provinces, and seven prefectures today.

This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence.

This book documents challenging consequences aging societies face: fewer workers, stretched pensions, questionable economic sustainability.

Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt wird in der Regel mit Metropolen assoziiert und in der Wissenschaft primär als Phänomen großstädtischen Lebens reflektiert.

Exploring how sweeping demographic changes have resulted in the ineffectiveness of recent monetary and fiscal policies, this book identifies corrective actions that will start to reverse the trends of low economic growth and widespread government deficits.

This book uses surveys, statistics, and case studies to explain why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior.

It is well understood that "e;good institutions"e; are essential for good governance.

Work occupies a pivotal role in the daily activities and over the course of a lifetime of members of modern societies.

A critical study of the field of demography from a postmodernist perspective.

This book delves into the consequences of rapid population aging for Mexico and U.

Life expectancy is about more than just health - it's about the kind of society we live in.

This book contributes to an understanding of how bifurcation theory adapts to the analysis of economic geography.

Rethinks the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution in Latin America.

This book provides new theoretic and applied material with focus on quantitative methods and data analysis techniques applied in demography, population studies, health issues and statistics.

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

In contemporary labor economics increasing attention is paidto the fact that unemployment is not only a stock but also aflow phenomenon.

This book studies healthy aging in China based on analyses of the datasets of eight waves of longitudinal survey in 1998-2018 with worldwide largest sample of oldest-old.

From both theoretical and practical perspectives, this book systematically expounds the important theories, key measures and major achievements in the field of poverty alleviation in China, and sums up the important experience of poverty alleviation, it answers the significant question why China has been able to lift itself out of poverty and build a moderately prosperous society in an all round way.

Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution.

Most people value to have children still highly.