Search Results for Transitional Economy

.... ( 2000 ). Household Economies in Transitional Times . In B. Entwisle , & G.E. Henderson (Eds.), Redrawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China (pp. 261 – 93 ). Berkeley, CA : University of California Press . Fan C.C. ( 2008 ). China on the Move: Migration...

... arise several decades after their evacuation. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2009 2009 Psychosocial Stress Coping Behavior Birth Region Death Risk Transitional Economy References Ahonen P. ( 2005 ). Taming the Expellee Threat in Post-1945 Europe...

... in this investigation is at best a gross index of the phenomenon referred to in the theory of the demographic transition. The fact that this study, as well as others, has re- lied upon the proportion of the economic- ally active population employed in the "secondary" sector of the economy as an index of this phenomenon...

...Nicolas Büttner; Michael Grimm; Isabel Günther; Kenneth Harttgen; Stephan Klasen Abstract Despite recent economic growth and reductions in child mortality in many African countries, the region has experienced a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the slow structural...

...Henry Hyatt; Erika McEntarfer; Ken Ueda; Alexandria Zhang Abstract Declines in migration across labor markets have prompted concerns that the U.S. economy is becoming less dynamic. In this study, we examine the relationship between residential migration and employer-to-employer transitions...

... into the migrant family-member population, thus accounting for a potentially serious source of bias. The results suggest that youth in migrant-sending families are less likely to complete the educational transitions leading up to postsecondary school and have a lower probability of participating in the local...

...Benedetta Scotti Abstract In the last decades, the long-standing paradigm of life course theory postulating direct transition from lifetime employment to full retirement has been eroding in advanced economies. For many mature workers, the period between the end of stable employment...

... of the Great Recession. Using data from the Current Population Survey, I investigate changes in public sector employment between 2003 and 2013. My results point to a post-recession double disadvantage for black public sector workers: they are concentrated in a shrinking sector of the economy, and they are more...

... population density but not by higher welfare levels in comparison with marginal regions (Ashraf and Galor 2011 ; Galor 2011 : chapter 3). Subsequent real wage divergence (Allen 2001 ) may thus reflect differences with respect to the moment when economies transited from Malthusian to a post-Malthusian...

... Ethnologist , 21 ( 1 ), 3-30 – 3-30 . 10.1525/ae.1994.21.1.02a00010 Griffin , K. ( 1995 ). Poverty: Concepts and Measurement . In K. Griffin (Ed.), Poverty and the Transition to a Market Economy in Mongolia (pp. 27-44 – 27-44 ). New York : St. Martin’s Press . Hannum , E...

... Force Part References Abdala F. , Geldstein R.N. , & Mychaszula S.M. ( 2000 ). Economic Restructuring and Mortality Changes in Argentina—Is There Any Connection? . In G.A. Cornia , & R. Paniccià (Eds.), The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies (pp...

... method used to account for such heterogeneity. Finally, regardless of the method used to account for unobserved heterogeneity, ample evidence of deliberate marital birth control exists for pre-demographic transition economies, including historical England. 1 The results presented...

... capital and the demand for health . Journal of Political Economy , 80 , 223 – 255 . 10.1086/259880 Gupta , S. , Verhoeven , M. , & Tiongson , E. R. ( 2002 ). The effectiveness of government spending on education and health care in developing and transition economies . European...

... The last hired, ¿ rst ¿ red hypothesis relates fundamentally to the idea that transitions of blacks into employment should be procyclical: as the economy grows, the rate of tran- sition into employment for blacks should rise relative to that for whites, becoming most pronounced at the end of the expansion...

... Human Capital Labor Income Demographic Transition Support Ratio Equity Premium References Acemoglu D. , & Johnson S. ( 2007 ). Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth . Journal of Political Economy , 115 , 925 – 85 . 10.1086/529000...

... for these hypotheses. In sum, declines in interstate migration and labor market transitions are evident for a wide range of types of people, jobs, and locations. Thus, our findings point toward explanations that would affect a large fraction of the workforce and broad swaths of the economy. In a very general sense...

... ). This gender selectivity can arise from various social dynamics (including cultural prescriptions, gendered household tasks, and low-skilled jobs in the urban economy) and should intensify the structural increase in urban birth rates. Behavioral effects may delay the urban fertility transition. Although...

... Development. Washington, DC: Commis- sion for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development. Gonzalez-Montes, S. 1994. "Intergenerational and Gender Rela- tions in the Transition from a Peasant Economy to a Diversified Economy." Pp. 175-91 in Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850...

... conclude with a brief discussion of how the ndings contribute to our understanding of life course transitions in the context of a changing economy and growing postsecondary options. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Job Opportunities and School Enrollment: The Warehouse Hypothesis Most previous research...

... Studies , 49 , 19 – 43 . 10.1080/0032472031000148226 Schultz , T.P. ( 1985 ). Changing World Prices, Women’s Wages, and the Fertility Transition: Sweden, 1860–1910 . Journal of Political Economy , 93 , 1126 – 54 . 10.1086/261353 Shorter , E. ( 1982 ). A History of Women’s...