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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"baby boom"”.
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Baby Boom Women: Seeking Meaning, Satisfaction in Retirement
… among ―leading edge‖ female members of the baby boom cohort. A case-centered research design with a purposive sample was utilized. Thirty female early retirees were recruited for the sample via snowball sampling techniques. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, either in-person or by …
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Family Experiences of Single Sexual Minority Women from the Baby Boom
… previously. Single sexual minority women of the baby boom came of age during this time and are beginning to plan for and enter into old age. This study used qualitative methods to study how single sexual minority women of the baby boom cohort defined family and planned for their later years. …
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Age-structure And Unemployment: Some Consequences Of The Post-war Baby Boom
… result of the entry into the labour-force of the baby-boom cohorts; older male workers experienced a fall in unemployment.;A less detailed empirical analysis is presented for the United States. The results are broadly similar to those for Canada.
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Unemployed Younger Baby Boom Women's Career Decision-Making Experiences: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… women who make up the younger cohort of the baby boom generation, namely those born between 1955 and 1964. Career decision making is a complex process involving a number of generational characteristics as well as personal and economic considerations. Unemployment further complicates this …
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Over the Thrill Or Raging Against Aging: Persuasive Appeals in Advertising Messages Targeted to the Baby-Boom Generation
This thesis explores the attitudes of the baby-boom generation, those born between the years of 1946 and 1964, regarding age and aging. Prior research has focused on the mature consumer--those 55-plus--and has found significant differences between the age one "feels" (cognitive age) and his or her …
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From baby boom to birth dearth: an interpretation of the population control movement and its political discourse since 1945 in the United States
This thesis investigates and interprets the origins and political discourses of the post World War II population movement in the United States. It argues that this movement, in part, was artificially created by members of the upper social class. Its most important representatives were the founder …
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Creating Cold War Role Models: The AFT's and NEA's Use of Cold War Discourses to represent K-12 Teachers as Professionals during the Baby Boom Era, 1946-1965
Teachers during the Baby Boom era (1946-1964) faced mounting pressures to be Cold War role models to the rapidly expanding population of students. Politicians, education scholars, school administrators, and community leaders considered teachers a central component to Cold War success. K-12 teachers …
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The Effect of Generation on Retention of Women Engineers in Aerospace and Industry
… Graduates. Women engineers were divided into the Baby Boom cohort (born 1945-1964), the Generation X cohort (born 1965-1980), and the Millennial cohort (born 1981-1997). A time-lag design was used to compare generational cohorts when they were the same age.</p> <p>The results of this study showed …
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All Joking Aside: The Role of Religion in American Jewish Satire
… (who came of age in the 40s and 50s), the Baby Boom generation (who came of age in the 60s and 70s) and the contemporary generation (who came of age in the 80s and 90s). When the satire produced by each generation is analyzed with the depiction of Judaism and Jewish practices in mind a …
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Public Religious Participation: A Comparison Of Three Distinct Birth Cohorts
… to comparisons between the Depression Era and Baby Boom Cohorts. This study extends research in this area by including Generation X to the extent possible. Using the General Social Surveys, this analysis employs an age/period/cohort analytical framework to examine religious involvement. …
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The effect of demographic change on firms' human resource policies
… shortage of young workers as a result of the baby bust cohort now entering the labor force. Previous studies have shown that the young workers of the baby boom cohort experienced lower relative earnings and higher unemployment because of their large cohort size. In contrast, this study is …
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The service industry and the aging population: marketing opportunities in a dynamic environment
… 23 and 42 (the age range representative of the Baby Boom cohort). Information from these interviews was used to understand both current and future perceptions of the elderly and of the role of caregivers in this society and what services they perceive are necessary for the elderly to function …
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Living with Alzheimer's disease: environmental design patterns for aging communities
… reduced mobility and cognitive abilities. As the Baby Boom generation grows older, we face an urgent need to provide landscapes that create healthy settings for elderly people who have or will have some day develop this disease. This thesis examines the psychological and physical needs of elderly …
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Analyzing the private development model for university real estate development
… respective campuses. However, beginning with the baby boom in the late 1950s, colleges have begun expanding their campuses at ever increasing rates to account for the influx of new students. In order to accommodate this increased need for campus expansion, universities have begun to look …
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Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee
… were written and produced. Commonly called the baby boom era, the postwar years saw a marked increase in this country's birthrate. By turning to the perceived security of domestic life and traditional family values following the upheaval of war, many Americans created a cultural mandate that …
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Conversion of residential neighborhoods into affordable assisted age-in-place communities
… the world, the changing needs and desires of the baby boom generation, the different housing products available for the elderly, the entitlement programs, and financing methods for development and operations of senior housing. Then it focuses on the Boston senior housing and assisted living …
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Student Leadership Development: Accreditation Considerations For PharmD Programs
… related to a shift in demographics, an aging baby boom population, retirement of current leaders, changes in pharmacy practice, and an increase of specialty areas in pharmacy. The Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE) and Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) …
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Aging and the labor market
… for this differential treatment. As the baby boom cohort reaches retirement age, demographic pressures on public programs such as social security may cause policy makers to cut benefits and encourage work at later ages. This chapter reports on a labor market experiment to determine the …
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The Social Distribution of Sport Involvement
… sport involvement. This period has seen both the baby boom and most recently the greying of American society. The decline of overt racial prejudice and the movement of women into the work force have had implications for traditional features of race and sex differences in sport involvement. This …
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Federal Compensatory Education Programs of the 1960s: The Implementation of Head Start and Title I Services in Roanoke County Public Schools
… enrollments resulting from the post World War II baby boom, continuing racial segregation, and chronic inferior education for African Americans and economically disadvantaged students of all races and ethnic groups. To combat the economic, social, and political implications associated with these …
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