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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 273–286.
Published: 01 August 1970
...Murray Gendell; Maria Nydia Maravlglla; Philip C. Kreitner Abstract Data from a five percent census sample reveal that in Guatemala City in 1964 economically active women, especially domestic servants, had lower cumulative fertility than inactive women, partly because larger proportions of them had...
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Demography (1974) 11 (3): 521–532.
Published: 01 August 1974
... involves servants, natives of Madrid and high degrees of literacy. Fertility-related considerations, however, are unrelated to working women, and this is explained as due to the availability of domestic help and “women-oriented” working arrangements. Fertility and socioeconomic status are found...
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 May 1975
... groups by a ratio of ten to six. This type of dif- ferential prevails in the majority of urbanwards migrations in Latin America and is largely attributable to the in- flux of young girls seeking employment in the capital as domestic servants. Female migrants to Bogota also out- number men in all other...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 352–377.
Published: 01 June 1966
... ar- rived at ages 30-39. This leads one to believe that, among the women immi- grants 15-19 years of age, there is a very particular group (probably young women who will be domestic servants) of a low level of education which has no counter- part among men of the same age. At the other end...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 1013–1034.
Published: 01 November 2010
... in turn led to decreasing numbers of youngsters coresiding with non-kin. A decline in the prevalence of working and living in as a boarder, a lodger, an apprentice, or a (domestic) servant was further reinforced by increased prosperity, enlarged employment opportunities for women, and an increased need...
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 427–439.
Published: 01 November 1971
..., predominantly in Mexico, in the three Middle Eastern countries between 70 and 80 percent of all domestic servants are male (Table 4, lower panel). The absence of Middle Eastern women workers from the service occupations is not limited to domestic work. Service occupations in general are a predominantly male...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 874–893.
Published: 01 June 1968
... if they became pregnant. This condition, imposed on immigrant domestic servants has probably led, as Cadbury claims, to greater interest in birth control, es- pecially among the domestic servants concerned, but also among a much wider circle. Cadbury states that this also led to widespread abortion...
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 1964
... 6.3 4.5 Managers, administrators, etc 6.1 1.8 2.0 Clerks and salesmen 22.6 23.8 19.5 Manual workers 60.0 62.2 41.8 Artisans and semiskilled workers .. 39.0 36.6 29.1 Workers in personal services 11.4 12.2 6.9 Domestic servants 1.7 2.6 2.5 Agriculturists, fishermen, etc 2.0 3.8 29.5 Other workers...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1819–1843.
Published: 10 July 2013
... as an agricultural worker, in animal husbandry, as a brick layer, as a rickshaw driver, or as a domestic servant, among others. One of the key goals of this article is to disentangle the ongoing debate surrounding the evidence on microcredit and domestic violence in the current literature, which at best...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1797–1823.
Published: 28 October 2015
... category—unskilled workers—was almost entirely domestic servants in 1850. The best jobs available for women were in factories, which employed 1.3 % of women. The tiny professional and managerial category—accounting for less than 1 % of adult women in the mid-nineteenth century—consisted almost entirely...
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 179–191.
Published: 01 May 1975
... in the United States. Various forms of questionable and even illegal placement service practices, the high turnover rate once the immigrants entered the United States, and the policy issue of using scarce visas for domestic servants led to pressure to make certifi- cation for live-in maids more difficult...
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 February 1976
... the proportion of immigrant workers in clerical occupations for Can- ada has risen. The latter increase reflects the employment opportunities for clerks in Canada (Cowan, 1972, p. 1). The de- mand for domestic servants in Canada is also associated with the slight increase in service workers. Immigration...
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Demography (1973) 10 (2): 205–223.
Published: 01 May 1973
...- demanding industrial structure" and 216 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 10, number 2, May 1973 lower the costs of children, lower the net "estimated full-year earnings rate of wage rates of parents, and raise incomes domestic servants," are included. (The of eligible parents. See Cain, 1972.) former variable measures...
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 333–341.
Published: 01 August 1992
... with parents or sometimes with other relatives. Thus a typical eastern European household contained a married head, his wife and children, other married couples, and relatively few "servants." The servants in western European households were not persons hired to perfonn domestic chores but employees who...
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 309–325.
Published: 01 August 1985
..., such as seasonal labor migration, are not captured in the population register. This particularly affects our ability to trace the moves of servants, who often remained but a few months in a household. Hence, in using the population register we focus on changes of residence which have a certain degree of permanence...
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 569–585.
Published: 01 November 1983
..., possibly by the employer in the case of domestic servants. The death certificate, filled out many years later, was generally based on information sup- plied by a child, spouse, or other close relative of the decedent. In evaluating the accuracy of the age information on the latter record, it must...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 209–226.
Published: 01 May 1993
... cases with inconsistent responses or coding errors. I also excluded the six never-married individuals because they constitute too small a group to analyze and are unlike any of the other marital groups. I dropped the 38 individuals living only with nonrelatives because a number of them are servants...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1593–1613.
Published: 18 May 2013
.... In this case, individual observations are clustered at the household level when two or more elderly individuals live in the same family group. As for servants and clerics, we found (and excluded) 15 individuals. 12 Actually, a very simple model estimating the risk of mortality for solitaries...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 651–662.
Published: 01 November 1994
... independent variables include mother's work status and occupation, the care arrangement for the first child, and the presence of relatives and servants in the household. The results are shown in Table 3. In the baseline model (Modell), as expected, the probability of having a second birth declined for later...
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 557–575.
Published: 01 November 1995
.... The census contains no actual measure to record whether women worked inside the home, nor do we know the extent of their contributions. Some women who remained in the home no doubt had servants to perform the domestic chores. Yet in view of the amount of labor necessary to ensure that households functioned...
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