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[Review of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada is a sequel to Kallen\u27s The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions. Whereas her earlier work sought to clarify the concepts of race and ethnicity as they applied to a neutral, if not tolerant, nation, the social ...
Abbott, Linda M. C.
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Demographic trends in Sweden

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2004
In the present note, we present the main features of recent trends in vital family-demographic behavior in Sweden. For this purpose, published indices of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by calendar year are updated by adding another two or ...
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Fertility transition in England and Wales: continuity and change

open access: yes, 1996
The focus of this paper is whether the transition from high to low fertility reveals continuity or discontinuity with the past. Our analyses of districts of England and Wales over time reveal an overall picture of continuity.
Friedlander, Dov, Okun, Barbara S
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Analyzing the Transformation of China’s First Marriage Pattern Using Nuptiality Tables

open access: yesFinnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2014
Using data from several censuses in China, including the newly released 2010 data, this study constructs net nuptiality tables as an analytical instrument to descriptively analyse the shape of China’s first marriage pattern from 1982 to 2010, including
Yan Wei, Quanbao Jiang, Stuart Basten
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Women’s changing socioeconomic position and union formation in Spain and Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes
Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on union formation. In this study, we explore the relevance of the female economic independence hypothesis to explain women’s patterns of ...
Marta Domínguez-Folgueras   +1 more
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Marriage, Household Context and Socioeconomic Differentials: Evidence From a Northeastern Town in Japan, 1729-1870

open access: yesEssays in Economic and Business History, 2017
This study utilizes one of the best sets of surviving historical registration records from a non-rural population in early modern Japan to examine whether and how socioeconomic status (property) and household context (power) influenced the first marriage
Satomi Kurosu   +2 more
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How the West "invented" fertility restriction [PDF]

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We analyze the rise of the first socio-economic institution in history that limited fertility – long before the Demographic Transition. The "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) raised the marriage age of women and ensured that many remained celibate ...
Joachim Voth, Nico Voigtländer
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