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in Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility During the Great Recession in Italy
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Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 1 European cross-country comparison of TFR, unemployment, and emigration trends. Southern European countries include Greece, Portugal, and Spain; Continental Europe includes Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; and Nordic countries include Denmark, Finland
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Differential Survival in Europe and the United States: Estimates Based on Subjective Probabilities of Survival
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1377–1400.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Adeline Delavande; Susann Rohwedder Abstract Cross-country comparisons of differential survival by socioeconomic status (SES) are useful in many domains. Yet, to date, such studies have been rare. Reliably estimating differential survival in a single country has been challenging because it requires...
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Family Trajectories Across Time and Space: Increasing Complexity in Family Life Courses in Europe?
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 135–164.
Published: 18 December 2017
... metrics developed in sequence analysis with cross-classified multilevel modeling, is used to simultaneously quantify the proportions of variance attributable to birth cohort and country differences. This approach allows the direct comparison of changing levels of family trajectory differentiation across...
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Socioeconomic Segregation in Large Cities in France and the United States
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1051–1084.
Published: 08 July 2016
... of socioeconomic segregation in either the United States or France. We might hope to use these studies to make cross-national comparisons, but differences in these studies between countries undercut their usefulness for this purpose. Studies of neighborhood segregation in the United States use several...
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Segmented generation mortality
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Demography (1969) 6 (2): 117–123.
Published: 01 May 1969
...Mortimer Spiegelman Abstract For a clear understanding of the inherent changes in mortality with advance in age, it is necessary to observe the experience of generations rather than the cross-section of period experience. In fact, the latter may produce a misleading picture as can be illustrated...
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Migration distances: An international comparison
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 633–640.
Published: 01 November 1988
... and between countries. Distance moved is a critical aspect of most concepts of migration, and measuring it would facilitate cross-national comparisons. Apparently only the United States, Great Britain, and Sweden have measured migration distances for the country as a whole, and this information is used...
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The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1597–1623.
Published: 10 September 2020
... of Central American (treatment group) relative to Mexican deportees (comparison group). The findings suggest that increased enforcement in Mexico decreases the likelihood of attempting repeated unauthorized crossings. Table 2 Effect of Southern Border Plan on the intent to remigrate 1 2 3 4...
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Educational assortative mating and economic inequality: A comparative analysis of three Latin American countries
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 481–502.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for Cross-Country Comparisons . The Economic Journal , 117 , C72 – C92 . 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02036.x Breen, R. and L. Salazar. 2009. “Educational Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in the US.” Working paper. Sociology Department, Yale University. Burtless G. ( 1999...
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Reporting Heterogeneity and Health Disparities Across Gender and Education Levels: Evidence From Four Countries
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 295–323.
Published: 24 February 2016
... their use to within-country gender and education differences in four countries. Most of the early anchoring vignettes studies focused on cross-country comparisons: for example, political efficacy in China and Mexico (King et al. 2004 ) or work disability and life satisfaction in the United States...
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Key themes in research on the demography of aging
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S5–S15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of (1) using multidisciplinary research designs; (2) collecting longitudinal data; (3) harmonizing international data collections to provide more leverage for cross-country comparisons; and (4) promoting cross-national research as a powerful tool for evaluating the impact of programs and policies...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 901–927.
Published: 21 May 2018
.../j.socscimed.2011.09.012 Werner H. , & Winkler W. ( 2004 ). Unemployment compensation systems: A cross-country comparison (IAB Labour Market Research Topics No. 56). Nuremberg, Germany : Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit . Willson A. E...
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View articletitled, Education and Physical Health Trajectories in Later Life: A Comparative Study
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 367–390.
Published: 28 November 2018
... poor children become poor adults? Lessons from a cross-country comparison of generational earnings mobility . In J. Creedy , & G. Kalb (Eds.), Dynamics of inequality and poverty: Research on economic inequality (Vol. 13 , pp. 143 – 188 ). Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Elsevier...
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View articletitled, Income-Related Gaps in Early Child Cognitive Development: Why Are They Larger in the United States Than in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada?
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Facilitating longer working lives: International evidence on why and how
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S131–S149.
Published: 01 March 2010
... between within-country reforms and the consequent changes in the employment of the old and of the young. Third, I discuss cross-country comparisons based on various comparison methods. Fourth, I show more formal estimates based on panel regression analysis. As it turns out, all the various estimation...
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Occupational gender segregation: Index measureiient and econometric modeling
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 489–496.
Published: 01 November 1998
... of employment by gender change, and this change is generally accompanied by a change in the distribution of employment across occupa- tions. Likewise, simple cross-country comparisons of gen- der segregation would be biased by differences in the over- all shares of employment by gender and the overall shares...
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What can we learn from (and about) global aging?
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S191–S209.
Published: 01 March 2010
... is to be preferred based on the AIC. Datta Gupta et al. (2009) followed the approach taken by Van Soest et al. (2007) and applied it to a cross-country comparison of SHARE countries. In their case, Y *i represents self-reported work disability, while the extraneous measure is grip strength. They came to the opposite...
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Cross-National Comparisons of Union Stability in Cohabiting and Married Families With Children
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1389–1421.
Published: 07 June 2018
... a detailed comparison of union formation, dissolution, and childbearing, allowing us to account for critical differences in couples’ experiences across countries. Nonetheless, comparable indicators of family background and partner characteristics are limited, and some social indicators do not translate cross...
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Infant Mortality Rate as a Measure of a Country’s Health: A Robust Method to Improve Reliability and Comparability
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 701–720.
Published: 23 February 2017
..., we develop a method to correct these measurements so that cross-country comparisons may be made by exploring a potential exception to the inverse relationship between IMR and development: namely, Cuba. Between 2001 and 2011, the average gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of Organisation...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1011–1037.
Published: 01 June 2021
... mobility does not meaningfully vary across time and countries. Our comparative study sheds new light on the variation of inequality of educational opportunity across advanced industrialized Western societies, providing the first cross-national comparison of sibling similarity in cognitive skills...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1423–1443.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of providing interpersonally comparable measures of health. Notably, most of these health studies that addressed issues of measurement cross-group equivalence focused on cross-country comparisons of health measures. Single-country studies presumed social or cultural homogeneity in terms of response...
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Reconstructing Prospective Intergenerational Educational Mobility in 12 Countries
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1117–1142.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the S&L ( 2020 ) approach in two respects. First, we scale their analysis to several countries, allowing a cross-country comparison of mobility mechanics. Second, we propose and implement a method to quantify the relative importance of sibship size effects on educational attainment, which partly...
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