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... Each of these decomposition procedures uses different formulas and consequently, produces variable results. However it is necessary to point out the similarities and dis- similarities between the different approaches; ... See full document

... In a more thorough evaluation of the above results one can mark that for the year 2000, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Italy show a slight hump at early-ages fertility rates. This new pattern of enhanced early-age fertility ... See full document

... Male and female cancer incidence rates are different. Males have higher incidence rates at older ages than the opposite sex. The stable relationship between the estimations of parameters B and ε D for male and female ... See full document

... The results of the estimation, which are shown in Tables 7 and 8, are generally consistent with the findings of studies not restricted to college-educated women. Holding other characteristics constant, married ... See full document

... We study the dynamics for large lattices and present our results mostly for city size N = 100. Figures 2-7 are all based on N = 100. In the last section, we discuss the cases N = 50 and N = 200, and show that N ... See full document

... The rates, means and standard errors of each of the independent variables are presented in terms of the ethnicity variable (Table 1). Of the 7,851 women who are included in the analysis in the 2002 period (infecund ... See full document

... observations in the 5 counties with a weather station are included. (6): Unclustered robust standard errors. (7): Standard errors are clustered at the county level. (8): Eq. 1 estimated by a Probit regression. ... See full document

... The first step toward a comprehensive timestamp notation is to distinguish these three temporal primitives, tick, granule and granule instant 7 . We propose to reserve the original ISO 8601 notation, which we call ... See full document

... Some Dutch idiosyncrasies, inherited from the past, can hardly be shared with other European countries. These include, for example, the relatively favourable age- structure and relativel[r] ... See full document

... Though a growing number of studies on this topic have looked beyond the Western world, still missing from the literature in an examination of marriage entry among the young population in Korea. Over the past several ... See full document

... Further differences in intergenerational family constellations relate to the times at which particular family relationships are generated or lost. As shown in the previous sections, there is considerable variation across ... See full document

... PÖB and LSD–C are open to international migration, which has been a crucial component of population change in contemporary Western societies and is a driving factor in changing the stock of human capital. The immigration ... See full document

... As compared to second-generation women, third-generation women in the earlier period had a higher risk of a recent birth and higher cumulative fertility as compared to non-Hispanic whi[r] ... See full document

... Applying this model on China can only lead to overestimation in the projection period, whatever the historical trend of this country, simply because its urban definition makes the estima[r] ... See full document

... Encyclopedia, 2004; Lee and Moss, 1995; Haynes, 1991). Bulls (males) are sexually mature at about 11 to 12 years of age, but they typically are not allowed to mate until around age 30 years. Elephant cows ... See full document

... Figure 21, plots second and third birth risks standardised to the 1989 level and shows a shift in the expected direction. The overall intensity of childbearing increased during the early 1990s; this increase was more ... See full document

... On the other hand, immigrants coming from developed countries are quite different, with high levels of education, significant proportions of people who have come to Spain to retire, an[r] ... See full document

... This study analyzed how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from trend in mortality at age 0 (infant mortality) and at ages 1-5 (early childhood [r] ... See full document

... In fact, unlike other western countries, marriage in Italy (and generally in Mediterranean Europe) - although postponed at a progressively older age - seems however to still have a cruci[r] ... See full document

... The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by different groups when first observed after entry, a[r] ... See full document