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Population Characteristics (4):
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Population Characteristics
Developing Economies (8)1 2008
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Unobserved differences in individual's susceptibility to death are an important aspect in the analysis of contemporary mortality patterns. However, observed mortality rates at adult ages, which are usually well described by a Gompertz curve, are often perceived inconsistent with frailty models of m...
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PMID: 12178158
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Compression of mortality is measured here in four ways: 1) by standard deviation of the age at death above the mode; 2) by standard deviation of the age at death in the highest quartile; 3) by the inter-quartile range; and 4) by the shortest age interval in which a given proportion of deaths take pl...
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PMID: 12178156
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Gender & Development (8)2 2000
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This article focuses on trafficking of young Nepalese girls and women. Trafficking is an integral part of the social and economic fabric of Nepal, as in other parts of the world. The practice causes intolerable degradation and suffering for the girls and young women involved, who are treated as a...
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PMID: 12296154
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Gender & Development (8)2 2000
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Joicfp News ()313 2000
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Africa Recovery Magazine (14)2 2000
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Mahidol population gazette / Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University (9)2 2000
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Population Bulletin (55)2 2000
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The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between religiosity and contraceptive method choice among users of contraception. The authors analyze a representative sample of 1751 married urban Israeli Jewish women interviewed in 1987-88. The authors' findings indicate that the c...
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PMID: 12159006
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Joicfp News ()311 2000
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Educator's update (4)5 2000
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The current conflict over watershed management between the lowlanders and highlanders in Chomthong has unveiled various aspects of the politics of people versus nature conservation. What is important is that the conflict has exposed the shifting and inconsistent views of the Thai state towards the p...
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PMID: 12349652
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AIDS Weekly () 2000
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AIDS Weekly () 2000
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The paper examines, in respect of 12 Western European countries over a period of 20 years, the widely held view that any decline in their working population should be offset by greater reliance on immigrant labor. This research, based on demographic projections and forecasts regarding labor market...
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PMID: 12158990
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Development in Practice (10)1 2000
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Gender Issues (18)2 2000
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In this article the author examines gender differences in the effect of family migration on socioeconomic attainment in Malaysia. The analysis discerns the relative importance of gender roles in household migration decisions, compared to gender stratification in the labor market. The Malaysian eco...
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PMID: 12296212
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Gender Issues (18)1 2000
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This article compares current concerns about "trafficking in women" with turn of the century discourses about "white slavery". It traces the emergence of narratives on "white slavery" and their reemergence in the moral panics and boundary crises of contemporary discourses on "trafficking in women"....
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PMID: 12296110
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Gender Issues (18)2 2000
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In the study this article explores, the meaning of gender identity for religious and secular Jewish and Arab women in Israeli society is examined. The study focuses on how Israeli women, rank gender identity, relative to other identities like being Jewish/Arab, being Israeli/Palestinian, religious...
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PMID: 12296213
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SIECUS Report (28)6 2000
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SIECUS Report (28)6 2000
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SIECUS Report (28)6 2000
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SIECUS Report (28)6 2000
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SIECUS Report (28)6 2000
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SIECUS Report (28)6 2000
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International Migration (38)3 2000
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Until the beginning of the 1990s Poland did not receive foreign migrants. Thereafter, the situation changed dramatically. A large part of the inflow proved to be illegal migrants, many of whom were in transit to Western Europe. Although these movements gradually declined in the second half of the...
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PMID: 12296140
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Employment discrimination against middle-aged women has recently captured public attention in Hong Kong. One reason is the economic slowdown and increasing unemployment since the 1993-94 and the 1997-to date economic downturns. This paper looks at sex and age discrimination against middle-aged wom...
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PMID: 12179949
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AIDS analysis Africa (10)4 2000
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AIDS analysis Africa (10)4 2000
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This paper explores the usefulness of a biographical approach in studying Irish rural youth migration. There have been calls recently for an approach to migration study that involves conceptualizing migration as part of individual biographies as well as social structures. However, there is little...
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PMID: 12349716
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Much of the authors' knowledge of kin interaction and exchange in Britain is partial, in that it is based on studies of co-resident groups and excludes consideration of kin "beyond the household". It is known that there have been large declines in intergenerational co-residence, raising fears that f...
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PMID: 12349713
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In a previous study (Portnov and Erell, 1998a), an Index of Clustering was defined, which allowed an analysis of the combined effect of spatial isolation and remoteness of peripheral towns on the long-term patterns of their population growth. In the present paper, the analysis of the effect of clust...
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PMID: 12349661
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AIDS analysis Africa (10)4 2000
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AIDS analysis Africa (10)4 2000
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AIDS analysis Africa (10)6 2000
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AIDS analysis Africa (10)6 2000
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