Population and demography Books

This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues. Besides addressing the impact of aging on health and health-related...

This book provides a fresh analysis of the demography, health and well-being of a major African city. It brings a range of disciplinary approaches to bear on the pressing topics of urban poverty, urban health inequalities and urban growth. The approach...

Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe,...

This two-volume work explores social cohesion and the demographic challenges of low birth rates and population aging. The authors approach the topic from the perspective of citizens and key policy actors, analyzing attitudes from 14 European countries...

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new...

Key Demographics in Retirement Risk Management argues that the weakening of public and employer-sponsored social safety nets in several countries will permanently increase pre-retirees' risk-anxiety and create pressure towards readjustment of their...

Applied demography continues its rapid pace of evolution in concert with the emerging trends of the 21st century. One significant area of change is the extension of applied demography beyond the United States; this book includes material dealing with...

This is the book that market strategists have been waiting for to position themselves in global markets and take advantage of the opportunities that demographic bonuses and deficits offer to them and their products. It is also a book for teachers and...

Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefitte's prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions...

This book provides an overview of the health of developing nations in the early twenty-first century. The basic assumption is that the health of a population is not independent of broader demographic trends, and does follow the health transition model...

The changes of populations are determined by fertility, mortality and migration. On the national level, international migration is a factor of increasing demographic, economic, social and political importance. This book addresses the debate on the impact...

Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less...

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. The book represents a...

Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Developments in Fertility and Women's Labour Supply in Europe.- Chapter 3: Fertility and Women's Labour Supply: Theoretical Considerations.- Chapter 4: Macro-Context and its Cross-Country Variation...

This volume is a cogent empirical analysis of the interplay between a region's natural amenities and its socioeconomic  evolution. It focuses on the rural sectors of America's Intermountain West region, which lies between the...

1: Ethnicity and Integration: John Stillwell and Maarten van Ham.- 2: Ethnic Group Population Change and Integration: A Demographic Perspective on Ethnic Geographies: Nissa Finney.- 3: Ethnic Residential Segregation Change in England and Wales: Albert...

Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have...

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,...

Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations. Inside, prominent scholars from various parts of the world and disciplines...

1: Adoption as a Support System for Orphaned, Abandoned, or Voluntary Placed Children,- 2: History: The Changing Face of Adoption,- 3: Sources of Adoption Data,- 4: Adoption Behavior of U.S. Women,- 5: Demographic and Social Issues of Same Sex...

Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support. This book...

1: Causal analysis in population studies: Henriette Engelhardt, Hans Peter Kohler and Alexia Prskawetz.- 2: Issues in the estimation of causal effects in population research, with an application to the effects of teenage childbearing: Robert A. Moffitt.-...

Chapter 1: The Population Controversy and Beyond.- Chapter 2: Population, Economic Growth and Religion. Malthus as a populationist.- Chapter 3: From Malthusianism to Populationism. The French liberal economists (1840-1870).- Chapter 4: The Malthusian...

Dedication Page.- Acknowledgements: Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Joseph D. Tucker.- Preface: Richard E. Ewing.- Introduction: Joseph D. Tucker and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.- Chinese Population Dynamics and HIV/STD Risk.- 1. Uncertain Population Dynamics and...

There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone. India is a prime example of...

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the...

​Analyzing the relation between population factors and technological progress is the main purpose of this book. With its declining population, Japan faces the simple but difficult problem of whether sustained economic growth can be maintained. Although...

Da die Bevölkerung in Deutschland immer mehr schrumpft und gleichzeitig immer älter und heterogener wird, ist der demografische Wandel eine der wichtigen und großen Herausforderungen, mit denen Deutschland in den nächsten Jahren zu kämpfen haben wird...

Bediirfnisse - na.ch Nahrung, Schutz, Liebe, Erkenntnis u. a- sind die unmittelbaren Triebkrafte des Menschenlebens. Auch der Asket kann sich dieser Lage nicht entziehen. Denn er kann sich der weltlichen Bediirfnisse nicht g8...

Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.Trotz des schnellen Wachstums des Anteils der Bevölkerung in einem Alter ab 80 Jahren an der Gesamtbevölkerung ist das Wissen über diese Bevölkerungsgruppe bislang gering. Zwar gibt es thematisch, methodisch und regional...

Oliver Pamp analyzes the likelihood and extent of pension reforms from a political-economy perspective. It is shown that voters' preferences for or against reforms are influenced by a societies' demographic development, the generosity of its existing...

​The work investigates the impact of religiosity of women and men on their completed fertility in an international comparison considering a long time period. Sandra Hubert aims at uncovering all mechanisms through which religiosity and religious...

Philipp M. Lersch shows that residential relocations may change individuals' lives for the better but also for the worse depending on their resources, restrictions and contextual conditions. A comparative analysis of English and German panel data reveals...

Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz...

The book discusses the demographic changes in Muslim countries. It thereby focuses on topics such as the demographic dividend and the demographic transition, labour market challenges, health care, universal education and gender issues. These challenges...

Theory and Empirical Findings in Previous Investigations.- Empirical Analysis.- Discussion.- Summary.- Erratum.

Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern. It is taking place to a varying degree all over the world, more in Europe and some Asian countries, less on the African continent. The...

Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the...

Elder Law: A Personal Perspective.- Later Life Legal Planning.- A Therapeutic Approach.- A Feminist Approach to Elder Law.- A Multi-Dimensional Model of Elder Law.- A Law and Economics Approach.- What can Elder Law Learn from Disability Law?.- Equity...

How long do we live? Demographic models and reflections on tempo effects: An introduction.- How long do we live? Demographic models and reflections on tempo effects: An introduction.- Theoretical basis for the mortality tempo effect.- Estimating mean...

Hamilton.- Hamilton's Indicators of the Force of Selection.- Further Challenges.- Optimization Models.- Optimization Models Based on Size.- An Optimization Model Based on Vitality.- Directions for Research.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Blockseminar: Ökonomik und Politik Sozialer Dienstleistungen,...

In recent years, population economics has become increasingly popular in both economic and policy analysis. For the inquiry into the long term development of an economy, the interaction between demographic change and economic...