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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa [PDF]
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2001 AbstractTwo of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low‐wage sending regions. Our new estimates of net migration for the countries of sub‐Saharan Africa show that exactly the same forces driving African across‐border migration ...
Hatton, Timothy, Williamson, Jeffrey G
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Mortality decline and reproductive change during the Dutch demographic transition: revisiting a traditional debate with new data [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND According to classic demographic transition theory, mortality change is the key factor that triggers a decline in fertility. Research on this topic has mostly relied on aggregate or time series data.
Frans Van Poppel +20 more
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. LABOUR MARKET CHANGES IN ROMANIA. FACTORS, CAUSES, ADJUSTMENT MECHANISMS [PDF]
Revista Romana de Economie, 2008 The reform of labour market and the modification of the human capital management model evolved unsteadily, much behind the demand from the economic and social environment.
Valentina VASILE, Valeriu IOAN-FRANC
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Associations Between the Mortality Trends by Cause of Death and Hazardous Alcohol Consumption in Russia. The “Conveyor Belt Effect” in Action? [PDF]
Население и экономикаRelevance. Alcohol consumption is detrimental to the Russian population health and contributes significantly to mortality. The aim of the study is to determine the associations between alcohol consumption and mortality by cause of death in Russia.
Elena S. Zamyatnina +2 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 This study used a wide range of information on parental sociodemographic, physical and behavioural characteristics as well as on the presence of non-communicable diseases among parents and examined the association of these attributes with anthropometric ...
Rajesh Kumar Rai +2 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background Providing support to others has been shown to be beneficial to older adults. As people age, their health and social relationships change. These changes may also relate to changes in social support provision.
S. K. Lestari +4 more
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The Lancet Public Health, 2019 Summary: Background: Since 2010, the rate of improvement in life expectancy in the UK has slowed. We aimed to put this trend in the context of changes over the long term and in relation to a group of other high-income countries. Methods: We compared sex-
David A Leon, ProfPhD +2 more
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Global Harmonization of Urbanization Measures: Proceed with Care
Remote Sensing, 2021 By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population is expected to be living in cities and towns, a marked increase from today’s level of 55 percent. If the general trend is unmistakable, efforts to measure it precisely have been beset with difficulties: the ...
Deborah Balk +3 more
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Citrus growers’ willingness to pay and perceptions of cover crops
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2023 This study develops and uses a survey to gather information on demographics, production and management practices, and perceptions on using cover crops as a conservation practice from citrus growers and utilizes the double-bounded dichotomous choice ...
Carter Cosgray +3 more
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Hastings District: Demographic Profile 1986 - 2031 [PDF]
, 2011 This report outlines the demographic changes that have occurred in Hastings, as well as what trends are expected in the ...
Jackson, Natalie
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