In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 5 (Mar., 1964), pp. 476-490 (15 pages) Data from contemporary Egypt refute almost all the generalizations about urban-rural demographic differences that ...
This blog post quantifies impact of demographic shifts and finds that they lowered unemployment rate by approximately 0.4 ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information POPULATION, a bimonthly journal (five or six issues a year), published in French since 1946, features original studies in the field ...
AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...