Preface -- Part I Size -- Chapter 1: Mega-states vs. Compact Powers: Risks in the Emerging International System -- Chapter 2: Effects of the Size of a Country on its Economic Performance -- Part II Political Regimes and Social Structure -- Chapter 3: Analyzing Dependence and Conflict in a...

Chapter 1 Class Structure, Education, and Social Mobility in Post-war Japan -- Chapter 2 The changing marriage market and status homogamy -- Chapter 3 Relative Indices of Educational Attainment and Trend Analysis of Inequality of Educational Opportunity Using the 2015 SSM Survey Data -- Chapter...

Einleitung -- Renteneintrittsentscheidungen aus ökonomischer Perspektive -- Renteneintrittsentscheidungen aus Sicht der Narrativen Ökonomik -- Empirische Untersuchung der Rolle von Narrativen für Renteneintrittsentscheidungen in Deutschland -- Schlussfolgerungen.

This book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as “differential undercount”, by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount differentials, and discusses why such undercounts occur. In addition to focusing on...

Erfolgsfaktor Generationen-Management -- Baby Boomer und Generation X -- Millennials und Generation Z -- Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsfähigkeit -- Mitarbeiterengagement -- Gesundheitsmanagement -- Generationen-sensible Personal- und Karriereentwicklung -- Arbeitszeiten flexibel gestalten -- New...

Chapter 1. Debt valuation: An alternative method to avoid future default (Thomas Poufinas and Evangelos Drimpetas) -- Chapter 2. The impact of Quantitative Easing Policy on the government debt and the NPLs of the Eurozone periphery countries (Dionysios Chionis, Fotios Mitropoulos and Antonios...

Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...

This book explores new frontiers in the research of economic growth and industrial reconstruction, analyzing economic growth and transitions in industrial structure in East Asia with a variety of data. First, the effects of demographic change on trade openness is analyzed empirically using the...

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local - labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together with...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Impact of Race and Inequality on Human Capital Formation in Latin America during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 3: Education and Inequality in North America in the Long Term with Special Reference to the United States -- Chapter 4:...