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The institutional context of population change [[electronic resource] ] : patterns of fertility and mortality across high-income nations / / Fred C. Pampel



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Autore: Pampel Fred C Visualizza persona
Titolo: The institutional context of population change [[electronic resource] ] : patterns of fertility and mortality across high-income nations / / Fred C. Pampel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
Disciplina: 304.6/09172/2
Soggetto topico: Population policy
Fertility, Human
Economic development
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The institutional context of population change -- pt. 2. Fertility -- pt. 3. Mortality -- pt. 4. Sex differences in mortality.
Sommario/riassunto: Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for men and women who are unable to work and have policies to ease the burdens of working mothers. The United States, in contrast, does not. This study demonstrates how public policy differences such as these affect childbearing among working women, moderate pressures for suicide and homicide among the young and old, and shape sex difference in suicide and homicide. The Institutional Context of Population Change cuts across numerous political and sociological topics, including political sociology, stratification, sex and gender, and aging. It persuasively shows the importance of public policies for understanding the demographic consequences of population change and the importance of demographic change for understanding the consequences of public policies.
Titolo autorizzato: The institutional context of population change  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-58496-0
9786612584961
0-226-64527-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459081703321
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Serie: Population and development (Chicago, Ill.)