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Demographic and family transition in Southeast Asia
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,

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This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background to facilitate an understanding of the changes that families in Southeast Asia have been going through. The book is structured into two parts. Part A includes three segments preceded by a briefing on Southeast Asia. The first segment focuses on marital and partnership status in the region, particularly marriage rates, age at marriage, incidence of singlehood, cohabitation, and divorce. The second segment focuses on fertility indicators such as fertility rates (total, age-specific, adolescent), age at childbearing, and childlessness. The third presents information on household structures in the region by examining household sizes, and incidence of one-person households, single-parent families, as well as extended and composite households. Part B presents indicators of children and youths well-being.

Making modern mothers
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ISBN: 9786612762918 1597347272 1282762915 0520937139 9780520937130 1417522828 9781417522828 0520223713 9780520223714 0520238206 9780520238206 9781597347273 6612762918 9781282762916 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper individuals, mothers, and Greek citizens? In this anthropological study of reproductive politics and ethics in Athens, Greece, Heather Paxson tracks the effects of increasing consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods, showing how women's "nature" is being transformed to meet crosscutting claims of the contemporary world. Locating profound ambivalence in people's ethical evaluations of gender and fertility control, Paxson offers a far-reaching analysis of conflicting assumptions about what it takes to be a good mother and a good woman in modern Greece, where assertions of cultural tradition unfold against a backdrop of European Union integration, economic struggle, and national demographic anxiety over a falling birth rate.

The economic effects of aging in the United States and Japan
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ISBN: 0226361004 9786611223618 1281223611 0226361020 9780226361024 9780226361000 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Due to falling fertility rates, the aging of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the next two decades. These fourteen essays show that, despite differences in culture and social and government structure, population aging will have many similar macro and micro effects on the economic status and behavior of the elderly in both countries. The most obvious effects will be on social programs such as public pension systems and the provision for medical needs of the elderly. But, the contributors demonstrate, aging will also affect markets for labor, capital, housing, and health care services. It will affect firms through their participation in the demand side of the labor market and through their provisions for pensions. And aging will influence saving rates, the rate of return on assets, the balance of payments, and, most likely, economic growth. This volume will interest scholars and policy makers concerned with the economics of aging.

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Older people --- Age distribution (Demography) --- Economic conditions --- Economic aspects --- JP / Japan - Japon --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 339.112.10 --- 368.43 --- 339.112.0 --- 332.832 --- 658.324 --- 332.834 --- 336.024 --- 339.311.0 --- 311.94 --- NBB congres --- Eigendom van grond en van onroerende goederen: algemeenheden. --- Ouderdomsverzekering. Voorbarige dood. Weduwen en wezen. --- Particulier vermogen: algemeenheden. --- Pensioen. Brugpensioen. --- Pensioenen. Verzekeringen. --- Pensioensparen. --- Sociale begroting, rekeningen en uitgaven. Gezondheid. --- Sparen: algemeenheden. --- Verdeling van de bevolking naar leeftijd. Veroudering van de bevolking. --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Distribution, Age (Demography) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Age --- Vital statistics --- Population aging --- Verdeling van de bevolking naar leeftijd. Veroudering van de bevolking --- Pensioen. Brugpensioen --- Pensioensparen --- Sociale begroting, rekeningen en uitgaven. Gezondheid --- Particulier vermogen: algemeenheden --- Eigendom van grond en van onroerende goederen: algemeenheden --- Sparen: algemeenheden --- Ouderdomsverzekering. Voorbarige dood. Weduwen en wezen --- Pensioenen. Verzekeringen --- Older people - United States - Economic conditions - Congresses. --- Older people - Japan - Economic conditions - Congresses. --- Age distribution (Demography) - Economic aspects - United States - Congresses. --- Age distribution (Demography) - Economic aspects - Japan - Congresses. --- aging, sociology, united states, japan, getting older, economy, economics, economic effects, falling fertility rates, baby-boom cohort, life expectancy, aged, age distribution, elderly, essays, essay collection, social issues, behavior, public pension systems, medical needs, health care services, housing, capital, labor, savings, balance of payments, return on assets.

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