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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Sociology, Demography"”.
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The development of sociology first degree courses at English universities, 1907-1972
… historical account of the development of sociology first degree courses at English universities, 1907-1972, begins with the background to the endowment, in 1907, of the first chairs of sociology, at the London School of Economics. The archives of the School, and of the University of …
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The Effects of Recruiting Source and Employee Demographic Similarity on Employee Outcomes: Is Recruiting Source Merely a Proxy for Employee Demographic Similarity
Research on recruiting sources has found that the use of employee referrals is positively related to employee tenure and performance. However, it is unclear whether a relationship exists between recruiting source used and applicant gender and race. Research has also found that organizational …
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Flexible Acculturation: On Taiwanese Relocations to China
The data used in the dissertation includes in-depth interviews, governmental documents, and media reports. In 2003 and 2005, I conducted fifty-one interviews of businesspeople and their family members in Taiwan and in China. Since 2002, I have also collected documents of many social institutions, …
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The Failure of Mobility as an Effective Unemployment Adjustment Mechanism in the Urban Labor Market: The Case of Chicago
This research develops a set of models to explain the failure of migration-mobility to operate as a useful method of reducing unemployment in the Chicago area. A series of qualitative findings were used to create a theoretical framework, and based on this framework residential stayer models were …
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The Effects of Supported Employee Demographics on Individual Cost-Efficiency
Finally, the present study found that losses in governmental subsidies experienced by supported employees after leaving sheltered workshops were more than offset by gains in wages earned and fringe benefits received. Further, revenue lost due to tax credits given to employers of workers with …
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Fertility and Marital Dissolution Among Young American Women (Hazards, Family)
The focus of this research is on the impact of childbearing upon the likelihood of marital dissolution during the first ten years of marriage. The birth of the first child causes numerous shifts in spousal roles, the household division of labor, time for leisure activities, and economic demands. …
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The Effect of Oil Revenue on The Fertility Pattern in Iran 1952-1976 (Economy)
Using data from the 1976 census, this study investigates the relationship between the distribution of oil revenue and fertility patterns across the Iranian provinces. Counter to expectation based on the experience of developed nations, in Iran the increase of oil revenue from 1952 to 1975 was not …
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Modernization and Differential Fertility in Ethiopia - a Multivariate Analysis
Not much is known about the demographic situation of Ethiopia. In the absence of a national census and vital registration system, demographic data is still scanty. The sources for the available data and their limitations are discussed. The country has been experiencing high levels of fertility but …
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A Demographic Approach to Social Accounting
There is no universally accepted organizing framework for social data in the United States. In fact, the fundamental single-year-of-age-, race-, and sex-specific population and vital event data are not published in a form that allows them to be organized into a consistent framework. This thesis …
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The Changing Causal and Compositional Structure of Migration in The Nonmetropolitan Midwest, 1955-1970
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:46:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913654.pdf: 9863274 bytes, checksum: dd2521f6a3e65e3ad1174584bcfe24e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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The Contribution of Medical Measures to The Mortality Decline in England and Wales, New Zealand and Italy: An Age-Period-Cohort Model
The mortality decline in the more developed nations has been related to three factors: a reduction in exposure to disease, improved nutrition, and medical measures. The contribution of medical measures has been a source of continuing controversy. This contribution has been examined using one of two …
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Migrational Patterns of College Students From Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, 1915-1965, With Special Reference to the Out Migration of Students From the South
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913520.pdf: 4775919 bytes, checksum: 3f571c93ab47a5c8ea023f8d5688b5d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Individual Modernity, Its Determinants and Consequences: A Study of Lower-Class Fertility in Guatemala
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317100.pdf: 5957172 bytes, checksum: 34d0298add7574f7e129e41627da565a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Ecological Structure of Madras
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317665.pdf: 8630360 bytes, checksum: 753b77fd167b0b2017d730e9c79de339 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Population Change in Small Urban Places in Illinois: A Modified Model for Metropolitan Dominance Theory
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7514195.pdf: 5511172 bytes, checksum: 811187bab3c20f81179f344a16ff2c32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Education and labor supply: An extended demographic model of the Chicago region
This thesis develops an extended demographic model of the Chicago region which projects the educational attributes of the population. The region is further subdivided into two zones, city and suburb, and two racial/ethnic groups are identified and disaggregated according to gender. Central to the …
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Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995
"This study maps the invention, circulation and regulation of the population crisis from 1945 to 1995. I conceptualize the population crisis as a complex field of practical reasoning occupied by different elements--human technologies, discourse strategies, institutions, and populations. The primary …
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La population du Nord et de l'Est du Nouveau-Brunswick et son milieu géographique
Abstract not available.
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Population pressures, environmental degradation and farmers' adaptive strategies in Nakuru District of Kenya
Despite two decades of government-sponsored efforts to reduce population growth, Kenya's fertility level and rate of natural increase still rank among the highest in the world. As a direct result of population growth, some rural areas, such as those in Nakuru District where this study was centered, …
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Beneath the poverty line during the Great Depression: The measurement and demographic composition of poverty in 1939
This thesis presents estimates of the poverty rate and the demographic composition of the poor in 1939. The underpinning of these estimates, and the foundation of the thesis, is the construction of poverty lines for 1939. The trend of household poverty over the twenty year period 1939 to 1959 is …
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