Demography category: 971 books
Aging
Concepts and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Presenting current research in an innovative text-reader format, Aging: Concepts and Controversies, Ninth Edition encourages students to become involved and take an informed stand on the major aging issues we face as a society. Not simply a summary of research literature, Harry R. Moody and Jennifer...
by Carl L. Bankston III
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015
In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. How can they help to explain what brings migrants from some countries...
Geographies of Ageing
Social Processes and the Spatial Unevenness of Population Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades. The current rate of population ageing is unprecedented in human history with population projections indicating that this will be an enduring trend. Moreover, population ageing is spatially pervasive, affecting...
by Daniela Keller
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2005
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: A, San Diego State University (Sociology), 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In both Germany and the United States, Social Security...
Romanians in Western Europe
Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In recent years, Romanians have become the second largest migrant group in Western Europe. Following the liberalization of border controls and the massive economic and political changes in Eastern Europe, human mobility has increased and is becoming a permanent feature of post-Cold War Europe. The...
The Economic Lifecycle, Gender and Intergenerational Support
National Transfer Accounts for Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainability, and intergenerational and gender equity. Coverage also offers important insights into an often...
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Rereading the Principle of Population
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood....
by Massimo Livi Bacci
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little growth, populations in poor countries...
Development and Planning
Essays in Honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.The book includes reviews of past...
Brown
What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book Award
A Globe and Mail, National Post**, Toronto Life****, Walrus****, CBC Books, Chatelaine****, Hill Times****, 49th Shelf and Writers’...
The Economics of Population
Key Classic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The economics of population has a long and controversial history as well as an exciting present. Vociferous popular debate, public policy, and population economics have unduly influenced one another: public debate and policy affect the erection of economists' conclusions just as the results of economists'...
Diversity and Disparities
America Enters a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The United States is more diverse than ever before. Increased immigration has added to a vibrant cultural fabric, and women and minorities have made significant strides in overcoming overt discrimination. At the same time, economic inequality has increased significantly in recent decades, and the...
Job Placements and Job Shifts in China
The Effects of Education, Family Background and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The book investigates the impact of the market-oriented economic reform in China on a unique aspect of the labor market outcomes — individuals' access to different employment sectors, that is, the state and collective sector, the private sector, and the sector of family contract farming in the 1990s....
by Mark A. Pisano
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The field of demographics does not focus on the economic impacts and the funding issues resulting from demographic change. Similarly, economics does not take into account demographic changes. The omissions in both fields are negatively impacting the nation: income reductions caused by demographic...