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  • A Comparative Analysis of European Time Transfers between Generations and Genders

    by Emilio Zagheni, Marina Zannella, Gabriel Movsesyan, Brittney Wagner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household members for their own consumption, without involving market transactions. Despite the economic and social importance of unpaid ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Legacies of Crime

    A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys

    by Peggy C. Giordano ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Criminology
    Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - depict the adults' economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies

    Variations Across Industrialized Countries

    Edited by Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend.The countries examined are not only diverse geographically, historically, and culturally, but also have ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Family Issues on Marriage, Divorce, and Older Adults in Japan

    With Special Attention to Regional Variations

    by Fumie Kumagai ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses. In analyzing Japanese family issues such as demographic changes, courtship and marriage, international marriage, divorce, late-life divorce, and the elderly living alone, this book emphasizes the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Family Formation in 21st Century Australia

    Edited by Genevieve Heard, Dharmalingam Arunachalam ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a detailed, up-to-date snapshot of Australian family formation, answering such questions as ‘what do our families look like?’ and ‘how have they come to be this way?’ The book applies sociological insights to a broad range of demographic trends, painting a comprehensive picture of the changing ways in which Australians are creating families.The first contemporary volume on the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

    Race, Identity, and Acculturation

    by Ezekiel Umo Ette ...
    Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues of settlement and adjustment of Nigerians in the United States. The literature is scanty about ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Diverging Destinies

    The Japanese Case

    by James M. Raymo, Miho Iwasawa ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the context of ideas articulated in research on “diverging destinies” and “patterns of disadvantage” as part of the second demographic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers

    by Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on 90 interviews conducted with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Work–Family Interface in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Challenges and Responses

    Edited by Zitha Mokomane ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Problems associated with work-family conflict do not belong to individual families alone, but have a major social and economic impact on the greater community. This scenario also holds true across sub-Saharan Africa, as nations enter the global economy and rising numbers of women enter the workforce.One of the first resources to focus on this region, Work-Family Interface in Sub-Saharan Africa ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Japan’s Industrious Revolution

    Economic and Social Transformations in the Early Modern Period

    by Akira Hayami ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    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 eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan.The arrival of the Sengoku Period in the ... Read more

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  • A Shrinking Society

    Post-Demographic Transition in Japan

    by Toshihiko Hara ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan. The meaning of this phenomenon has been successfully clarified as the possible historical consequence of the demographic transition from high birth and death rates to low ones. Japan has entered the post-demographic transitional ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Household and Living Arrangement Projections

    The Extended Cohort-Component Method and Applications to the U.S. and China

    by Yi Zeng, Kenneth C. Land, Danan Gu, Zhenglian Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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, and China, the largest developing country. The ProFamy method uses demographic rates as inputs to project detailed distributions of household ... Read more

    $143.09 USD