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... for the X-11 method. So we can estimate the percentage of the variation in seasonality attributable to the variation in the distribution of causes of death with respect to age as somewhe[r] ... See full document

... Temporary contracts and high employment turnover, however, have characterised youth labour markets since the mid-1980s (see Figure 3). 5 According to the Labour Force Survey data, during the two decades between 1987 and ... See full document

... The Panel Study of Income Dynamics asks mobile household heads why they moved and categorizes the responses into eight reasons (Appendix 1). As well, we know the main reason why people moved since the categories are in ... See full document

... As pointed out, we do not assume German citizenship and the German residence permit to have a direct impact on the fertility of women in the traditional migrant- worker groups. However, there are other (West) German laws ... See full document

... The statistical data also provide valuable checks of alternative explanations based on direct economic incentives. The possibility, floated at the end of section 4, that the decline in Carnian birth rates might be a ... See full document

... The period between 1975 and 1989 was also characterized by a decline in mobility. In-migration rates and out-migration were below 30‰ in all regions throughout this time 6 . An explanation is considered to be the ... See full document

... Time series giving the data for the six countries are assembled in Table 3. This shows for each country the observed value of the mode M, the observed value of the standard deviation above the mode SD(M+), the value of ... See full document

... Although cause-specific modal ages at death differ greatly in level, our results indicate that modal age values for leading causes among Canadian males and females increased steadily[r] ... See full document

... From a complementary angle, researchers (e.g. Lesthaeghe 1983; Mason and Jensen 1995) have called attention to the overly static view of the micro-economic theory – in particular, it tends to conceptualise social ... See full document

... age 17 in 1999, the postponement continues scenario implies a cumulative fertility level until about 2020 that is substantially below the level suggested by the observed ...are 17 and 24 years old in 1999, ... See full document

... Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the op[r] ... See full document

... Figures 4 and 6 show that adding a common factor to the LC and CoDa models suc- ceeds in reducing the long-term divergence in the forecast life expectancy. For example, under the LC model the difference between ... See full document

... This article systematically evaluates the quality of periodic fertility measures in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for a large set of ... See full document

... Perceived stress was assessed using Cohen’s perceived stress scale (Cohen, Kamarck, and Mermelstein 1983) with a few modifications to fit the Chinese context (Wen et al. 2010). The scale included eight items with an ... See full document

... Our assessment of spatial heterogeneity in contemporary models of neighborhood crime rates focuses on evaluating the effects of selected indicators of demographic context–racial compos[r] ... See full document

... Our previous study on labor-market attachment and first births (A&S 1) revealed a positive effect of being established in the labor market on the propensity to become a mother [r] ... See full document

... In a study on the effect of educational attainment on first, second and third births in Norway, Kravdal (2001) found significantly higher second and third birth rates for women with the [r] ... See full document

... example, 17% of the women who were born in 1964 and who were recorded with some college education by the time they were 39, had taken this education after age 30 (see further examples ... See full document

... the article of Davis, Glass (1965) states that the main mechanism of change is the possibility of intra-generational mobility, since decline in infant mortality and parental control over children cannot induce ... See full document

... The GGP addresses the individual, partnership, and household levels of analysis through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), where individual respondents are in[r] ... See full document