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“gerda neyer”

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  • The Demography of Europe

    Edited by Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu, Laura Bernardi, Christoph Bühler ...
    Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse. Life expectancy has increased in Western Europe for both females and males, but has been declining for men in some Eastern ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    Expanding Qualitative Research Horizons

    by Miranda Leontowitsch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched groups of older people and sets out future research agendas. ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Care

    The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People

    by Bernhard Weicht ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential. ... Read more

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  • Inverse Projection Techniques

    Old and New Approaches

    Edited by Elisabetta Barbi, Salvatore Bertino, Eugenio Sonnino ...
    Series series Demographic Research Monographs
    Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable. The book offers an overview of the present state of methodological development in the field of inverse projection techniques. In the various chapters of the book, leading experts in demography and related ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Frontiers of Applied Demography

    Edited by David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography. Inside, readers will discover new insights into the databases, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that can help them to improve how they use demography in decision making and planning problems in both public and private settings.The topics and perspectives are found in the book’s 23 ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times

    Edited by Kate Woodthorpe, Liam Foster ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas. Yet death is often overlooked within policy debates in the UK and beyond, and within gerontology. Bringing together a range of scholars engaged in policy associated with death, this collection provides a holistic account of how death factors in social policy. Within this, issues covered include inheritance, palliative ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Challenges of Aging

    Pensions, Retirement and Generational Justice

    Edited by C. Torp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading experts from diverse disciplines describe the fundamental impact demographic aging has on pension systems, on the concepts of retirement and old age, and on the balance of generational justice. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Biodemography of Aging

    Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity

    by Anatoliy I. Yashin, Eric Stallard, Igor Akushevich, Liubov S. Arbeeva, Konstantin G. Arbeev, Irina Culminskaya, Mikhail Kovtun, Julia Kravchenko, Alexander M. Kulminski, Frank A. Sloan, Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Deqing Wu, Kenneth C. Land ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume is a critical exposition of the data and analyses from a full decade of rigorous research into how age-related changes at the individual level, along with other factors, contribute to morbidity, disability and mortality risks at the broader population level. After summarizing the state of our knowledge in the field, individual chapters offer enlightening discussion on a range of key ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Generations

    New Directions and Challenges

    by Jennie Bristow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book suggests that the enduring problem of generations remains that of knowledge: how society conceptualises the relationship between past, present and future, and the ways in which this is transmitted by adults to the young. Reflecting on Mannheim’s seminal essay ‘The Problem of Generations’, the author explores why generations have become a focus for academic interest and policy ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Aging in Hong Kong

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Jean Woo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With the longest life expectancy for men and the second longest for women, Hong Kong typifies our planet’s aging population. The daily lives of its older adults closely match the advantages and disadvantages experienced by urban elders in other developed countries. For these reasons, Hong Kong’s elderly serve as a salient guide to older people’s social, psychological, and healthcare needs—concerns ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Germany's New Security Demographics

    Military Recruitment in the Era of Population Aging

    by Wenke Apt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests. Since contemporary military operations still display a strong human element, particular scrutiny is given to the empirical analysis of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD