The institutional context of population change : patterns of fertility and mortality across high-income nations /

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Annotation Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. Europea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pampel, Fred C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Colección:Population and development (Chicago, Ill.)
Temas:
Population policy > Cross-cultural studies.
Fertility, Human > Cross-cultural studies.
Economic development > Cross-cultural studies.
Fertility.
Population Dynamics
Fertility
Mortality > trends
Politique démographique > Études transculturelles.
Fécondité humaine > Études transculturelles.
Développement économique > Études transculturelles.
Fécondité.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Economic development
Fertility, Human
Population policy
Bevolkingsontwikkeling.
Economische aspecten.
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Annotation Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for men and women who are unable to work and have policies to ease the burdens of working mothers. The United States, in contrast, does not. This study demonstrates how public policy differences such as these affect childbearing among working women, moderate pressures for suicide and homicide among the young and old, and shape sex difference in suicide and homicide. The Institutional Context of PopulationChange cuts across numerous political and sociological topics, including political sociology, stratification, sex and gender, and aging. It persuasively shows the importance of public policies for understanding the demographic consequences of population change and the importance of demographic change for understanding the consequences of public policies.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
ISBN:9780226645278
0226645274
0226645258
9780226645254

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