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Demographic groups and personnel policy

Labour Economics, 1993
Abstract Shared investments in firm-specific training are introduced into an equilibrium model of job allocation in which demographic groups differ in their labor force attachment. Perhaps surprisingly, depending on parameter values these can be sufficient conditions for firms to involuntarily ration jobs by demographic attributes.
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On Demographic Policy Debates in the USSR [PDF]

Population and Development Review, 1982
Response to an earlier article surveying the debate between Soviet advocates of uniform versus regionally differentiated pronatalist measures in the years preceding the 26th Party Congress of the Soviet Union in 1981. Argues that the misuse of the term "regionally differentiated" by the authors robbed it of any meaning and charges that they further ...
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The effects of organizational and demographic context for innovation implementation in public organizations

Public Management Review, 2020
Despite increasing research on public sector innovation in recent years, the organizational and demographic contextual variables that affect innovation implementation are not well known.
M. Demircioglu
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Demographic trends and population policies

Futures, 2001
Abstract By examining and reviewing current demographic problems, the author assesses the new challenges and new needs that Italy (and the European Union) will soon have to meet. Italy is a paradigmatic case because it is one of the countries (the other is Japan) where population changes are occurring most rapidly. The combined effects of lengthening
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Who Gets Served in Gifted Education? Demographic Representation and a Call for Action

The gifted child quarterly, 2019
The disproportional representation of students from various demographic subgroups within identified gifted and talented populations has long frustrated policy makers, education advocates, researchers practitioners within the field, and those concerned ...
S. Peters, Marcia Gentry, Gilman W. Whiting, Matthew T. McBee   +3 more
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Demographic Differences in Telehealth Policy Outcomes

2009
This chapter is an analysis of demographic variables influencing policy outcomes with online health information searches in the general U.S. public. This study is based on The Internet and American Life Daily Tracking Survey, August 2006 from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Mary Schmeida, Ramona McNeal
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Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy

2001
As public expenditures on health, education and transfer programmes increase, demographic change has a growing impact on public expenditures, and the incentives for behaviour created by public transfer programs increase as well. The essays in this volume discuss such topics as: demographic change and the outlook for Social Security and Medicare in the ...
Ronald Lee, Alan J. Auerbach
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Demographic science and the redirection of population policy

Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1965
Abstract To date efforts at curtailing population growth in developing countries have been bipolarized into the ‘economic development’ approach on the one hand, and the family planning approach on the other. The first sees decreases in family size as the long-range resultant of a complete socio-economic overhauling which, in turn, leads to a desire ...
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IMPLICATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE FOR POLICY EDUCATORS

Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies, 1985
It is obvious to even the casual observer that the demographics of United States society are dynamic and sometimes change in ways that were neither foreseen nor totally understood. It is equally obvious, as illustrated by the comments of the previous panelists, that such demographic changes have numerous implications for various segments of our society
Henderson, Dennis R., Henderson, Dennis R.   +1 more
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Theoretical Problems of Demographic Policy in the USSR

Problems in Economics, 1984
The Twenty-sixth Congress of the CPSU emphasized the urgency of formulating and implementing an effective demographic policy and of resolving population problems that have recently become critical, thereby necessitating the analysis of theoretical and practical problems of demographic policy as a key component of demographic research.
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