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... article). Based on ethnographic exploration of employment niches in which female Central Asian migrants typically concentrate, the following three sectors of the city economy were selected: bazaars (рынки), ... See full document

... This article, which is of a methodological nature, provides only a few examples of potential analyses which might be carried out using such rich and detailed territorial ... See full document

... following consequences: (a) they would stay young longer; (b) they would have a very close emotional relationship with their children; (c) their standing in their social network would increase; (d) their adult children ... See full document

... It is not common for young people in Slovenia to live on their own (in a single-person household) during the time interval between living with parents and living with a partner. The possibility to move into one’s own ... See full document

... Typically, the older parents in our study met each other at an older age than the young parents, and also had their first child later into the partnership. In the NKPS samples the relationships in which the first child ... See full document

... Consider, for instance, the attrition of childless women when they give birth. Suppose that in such a cohort, some of the women are married and the rest are not married. Suppose the intensity (i.e., force or hazard) of a ... See full document

... estimates by repeatedly running a fully adjusted multivariate model predicting financial capital, including a different buffer zone radius at each time (see Appendix Table A1). Although we observed a slight increase in ... See full document

... Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks have had difficulty explaining these unprecedented low levels of fertility. More recently, however, ... See full document

... In Economy and Society, Weber argues that a sufficient analysis of social behavior— such as getting married, giving birth, moving, or dying 5 —requires “adequacy on the level of meaning” as well as mastery of the ... See full document

... The conventional approach would attribute deviations in TMR 30 (t) to the fact that the proportions of cohort survivors, representing individuals exposed to past mortality levels, tend to be smaller than proportions of ... See full document

... We should be cautious, however, in interpreting the implications of improvements in education on population aging. Whereas improvements in education lead to better health among the elderly, they also lead to changes in ... See full document

... Japanese surveys experienced substantial declines in response rates around the turn of the 21st century. Table 1 shows the response rate trend for four repeated cross- sectional survey programs in Japan from 1998 to ... See full document

... effects as comparable as possible (Note 4). The fact that the educational level in 1975 is used in the LRC cohort and the Helsinki population, whereas the data from Oslo include education in 1970 or 1980, should be of no ... See full document

... When the other variables were introduced (Table 2, full model, females), marital status had a strong effect. Being married was a clear advantage and the increased risk for the unmarried was substantial (34% higher), ... See full document

... On the other hand, some studies suggest a revival of ancestor worship in the Reform Era. Readers should note that the suppression during the Mao era did not totally succeed in eliminating ancestor worship from society. ... See full document

... To make the country comparison across the various indicators as well as across cohorts easier we proceed from a grouping of countries based on geographical location and social system: Northern Europe (Finland, Norway, ... See full document

... While the bivariate probit model and partial linear regressions are formally identified with exclusion restrictions in the main analysis, doubts remain about the validity of the identifying instruments and the inferences ... See full document

... the GHS and Understanding Society datasets. We use four categories of education: Less than Ordinary (O) Level; Ordinary (O) level; Advanced (A) level; Degree or equivalent. Ordinary (O) level qualifications are ... See full document

... The analysis uses Gompertz proportional hazards models with age of entry defined by the respondent’s age at the 1966 survey and age of death (or age in 2012 for those still living) measured in years. Gompertz models ... See full document

... Millions of Chinese migrant parents face the dilemma of whether to bring their children with them to cities or to leave them behind in the countryside. Which of the two migration strategies would benefit their children ... See full document