Sources of Demographic Data -- Sampling Designs and Inference -- Waiting Times and Their Statistical Estimation -- Regression Models for Counts and Survival -- Multistate Models and Cohort-Component Book-Keeping -- Approaches to Forecasting Demographic Rates -- Uncertainty in Demographic Forecasts: Concepts, Issues, and Evidence -- Statistical Propagation of Error in Forecasting -- Errors in Ce…
Executive Summary -- Aim of the Study -- The Methodology -- Description of Tax and Social Security Systems -- The Effective Tax Burden in the Analysed Countries -- International and Inter-Regional Comparison -- The Importance of Social Security -- Summary and Conclusions.Taxes on the highly skilled are an important cost factor for companies competing internationally for talent. This book provid…
Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Population Structure -- Age and Sex -- Population Distribution and Suburbanization -- Marriage and Family -- Demography of Gender -- Demography of Aging -- Demography of Race and Ethnicity -- Labor Force -- Population Processes -- Fertility -- Infant Mortality …
Introduction: The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya -- The Setting: Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya -- Time, Terror, and Pastoral Inertia: Sedentarization and Conflict in Northern Kenya -- Ecological and Economic Consequences of Reduced Mobility in Pastoral Livestock Production Systems -- Curs…
Fundamental Results on Social Security in a Deterministic Economy -- Social Security and Demographic Transition -- Old-Age Provision and Uncertainty: An Introduction to Issues of Risk and Risk Sharing -- Labor Income Risk, Demographic Risk, and the Design of (Wage-Indexed) Social Security -- Demographics and Political Risks of Benefit Rule Changes: A Case Study for Germany -- Social Security, P…
Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts and Issues: Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek -- Chapter 2. From international migration to freedom of movement and back? Southern Europeans moving North in the era of retrenchment of freedom of movement rights: Roxana Barbulescu -- Chapter 3. Immobility in Times of Crisis? The Case of Greece: Georgia Mavrodi and…
1. Introduction -- 2. The Generational and the Gender Contract -- 3. Crafting age-specific national accounts: National Transfer Accounts data and methods for Italy -- 4. Age, Economy and Welfare. National Transfer Accounts results for Italy -- 5. Women Work, Time Transfers and Informal welfare -- 6. Concluding Remarks.This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a E…
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Post-Colonial Critique of Capital Accumulation Today -- Part I: New Dynamics of Accumulation -- Chapter 2. Flexible Labour and Capital Accumulation in a Post-Colonial Country Byasdeb Dasgupta -- Chapter 3. Law, Statistics, Public Private Partnership and the Emergence of a New Subject Mithilesh Kumar -- Chapter 4. S ecurity and the City: Postcolonial Accumulation, Secu…
1. Behavioural contraception methods: An introduction.-2. Methodological issues -- 3.Ultra-modernism, or son preference? Analysis of NFHS data -- 4. Current contraception use: A survey of currently married graduates in Kolkata -- 5. Method, or methods? What happens over the life span -- 6. Contraception in a risk society: A new approach to studying reproductive behaviour -- 7. Behavioural Contr…
Chapter 1: Introduction: M. Nazrul Hoque, Beverly Pecotte, and Mary A. McGehee -- Section I: Mortality and Morbidity Trends in Developed Countries: Chapter 2: Are Americans Getting Sicker? An Analysis of Emerging Morbidity Trends: Richard K. Thomas -- Chapter 3: Reproductive Health Policy Variability among the States over Time: Implications of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 for Health Research…