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... In recent years, researchers and policy makers have become increasingly interested in the effects of migration and remittances on the development of communities of origin in developing countries (de Brauw and Rozelle ... See full document

... The rapid development of northern manufacturing combined with the socio-economic cleavage profoundly affected migration dynamics. Migration from the south to the north characterised Italian society from the early 20th ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the results of the four piecewise exponential regression models. The table shows the estimated relative risks for each group compared to the reference category for each independent variable. The ... See full document

... decades? 2) Do the changes in divorce patterns vary by sex? and 3) What are the implications of these changes in divorce risk on the outcomes of recently formed marriages? ... See full document

... The most noticeable feature in Belgium is the role of migration-cum- reclassification in overall urban growth. First, as in Sweden, these two components taken together were an essential component of urban growth ... See full document

... age 70 and older (AARP 2002), and thus are more likely to travel at the former rather than latter ages to reunite with grandchildren in the United ...aged 70 and older are less likely to be employed than ... See full document

... (NUTS 2), but the Italian regions are grouped into Northwest, Northeast, Center, and South and Islands, because the EU-SILC database only gives information for Italian regions at the NUTS 1 ... See full document

... The results of our descriptive analysis show, for the first time, the development of income, pensions, and private transfers for different age groups, beginning before the dissolution of the GDR to 18 years after ... See full document

... Besides socio-demographic data on each household member and on the household (family structure, economic conditions, geographical area of residence), the survey provided information on the geographical distance and ... See full document

... Potential confounders are included in the empirical model to net out spurious elements of the association between earnings and first birth probability. Being enrolled in full-time education reduces earned income (as less ... See full document

... For Hungary, our policy variable is based also on three periods but they mark much less radical policy changes than in Sweden, at least for gender relations. In the first period (from the mid-1960s to 1981), a long ... See full document

... The results of the multinomial logistic regression are shown in Table 2. The dependent variable has four categories, with the most represented category “no participation” as the reference group. Three models are ... See full document

... As expected, the early decades had higher mortality from the selected causes in both age groups. Similar to the population-level data, the model indicates that the largest period effect occurred during the decades ... See full document

... Figure 2 depicts the strength of the correlation between women’s educational attainment and literacy in each of the 31 countries, illustrating one of the study’s main findings: women’s educational attainment and ... See full document

... The objective of this work was to analyze the association between religion and two variables of female conjugal regime in Brazil: entry into first union and type of union. The age group of 20 to 29 years old was ... See full document

... The objective of this paper is to reconstruct fertility levels and trends in Mongolia before 1960 in order to offer an alternative view of historical fertility change in the country. The paper opens with an overview of ... See full document

... Wave 2 were new respondents, in these countries we can expect the levels of transfers to be marginally lower, given that the reference period is 12 months rather than the approximate 30 months between waves that ... See full document

... The number of children in the family can be measured in a number of different ways; for example as the total number of children ever born in the family, the total number of surviving children (Van Bavel 2006; Van Bavel ... See full document

... Figure 2 presents the map of factor scores for male Factor 3. Montana and Wyoming lead the way in injury mortality, with other states in the Mountain time zone also exhibiting high scores. States with large urban ... See full document

... In a recent paper published by Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which is entitled „Does famine influence sex ratio at birth? Evidence from the 1959–1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China‟, Shige Song examined the ... See full document