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... Compared with all other education groups, mothers with some college have the highest rates of labor force participation, but also high rates of part-time employment, non-standard work,[r] ... See full document

... almost equal to that in Shanghai. This phenomenon cannot be explained directly by a hypothesized positive relationship between socio-economic development and the divorce rate. A few remarks may be useful to understand ... See full document

... Urban status at age 12 measures whether a respondent had urban household reg- istration (i.e., “hukou”) status when they were 12 years old. Although send-down was primarily an urban movement, some high school graduates ... See full document

... The 14 ecological zones identified are irrigated, tree crops, forest-based, rice and tree crops, highland perennial, highland temperate mixed, root crop, cereal root crop mixed, large commercial smallholder, ... See full document

... This article has examined the recently proposed PGW method to estimate smoking- attributable mortality in high-income ...This article has presented a modified version of the PGW method, the PGW-R method, ... See full document

... Health expectancy is the average number of years, at a particular age, to be lived in a given health status within total LE (Sullivan 1971). It complements the usual LE by integrating a health component, and has become a ... See full document

... Mortality is an indicator of health and disease risk (Razum et al. 1998). Studying differences in mortality between migrant and minority groups and the majority population might improve our understanding of the ... See full document

... commenced schooling (0–4 years of age), as well as a school-aged group of children (aged 5–14 years) who would potentially be enrolled in the school system. This further limits the importance, in this study, of ... See full document

... rate. 14 The household theory of fertility shows that an increase in women’s income reduces their fertility, while an increase in men’s income increases the household’s ... See full document

... the 14-week-long maternity leave in Switzerland is one of the shortest in OECD countries, and the country does not offer paternity or parental leave at all (OECD 2010), despite the media interest in the topic ... See full document

... For women whose cohabitational union is, for example, converted into a marriage in the third year of the union, the combined- union TFR is obtained by accumulating the TFRs for the firs[r] ... See full document

... In this paper, we use Japanese vital statistics and census data to describe trends in the experience of marital dissolution across the life course, and to examine change over time in e[r] ... See full document

... The packages cover the estimation of multistate models (transition rates and transition probabilities), multistate life tables, multistate population projections, and microsimulation..[r] ... See full document

... Persons who are embedded in this kind of network perceive more social pressure regarding family formation, anticipate strong network support in case of parenthood, and, because of [r] ... See full document

... Figure 2 shows life cycle deficit (LCD) by gender, both monetary LCD − difference between consumption and production of market activities − and non-market LCD − based on time use e[r] ... See full document

... Not surprisingly, the population sizes of the metropolitan places settled by pioneers were relatively large, especially for Salvadorans (397,000), Dominicans (358,000), and Colombians [r] ... See full document

... argument is that individuals with relatively low levels of human capital, women, and especially women with relatively low levels of human capital are likely to have had less influence [r] ... See full document

... Due to the increasing proportion of women of reproductive age living in a consensual union and the similarity of childbearing patterns of married and cohabiting women, the proportion o[r] ... See full document

... The cornerstone of mortality- and life-expectancy forecasting in developed nations, the Lee-Carter model relies on assumptions of there being a dominant singular value that captures most[r] ... See full document

... censuses and an adaptation to the accounting procedures in multiregional life tables are used to estimate Black migrants’ expected duration of residence in the South between 1965 and[r] ... See full document