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The road towards a better vital registration system: changes in the mortality profile, under-registration of death counts, and ill-defined causes of deaths in Brazil
Lima, Everton; Queiroz, Bernardo - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2013
to the evolution of completeness of death counts registration and the changes in the mortality age profile. We make use … of the mortality database available at the Brazilian Ministry of Health Database - Datasus and Population Censuses from … 1980 to 2010. We applied traditional demographic methods to evaluate the quality of mortality data for 137 small areas and …
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Long term implications of low fertility in Kerala
Rajan, S. Irudaya; Zachariah, K.C. - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 1997
In recent years, Kerala has made remarkable progress in its demographic transition. The State has achieved below replacement level of fertility two decades ahead of the all-India target year of 2011 and India is likely to achieve the replacement level only by 2021. The TFR declined from a high...
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Una revisión a la composición y transición demográfica
ARIAS, ADRIANA CAROLINA SILVA; ROMÁN, PATRICIA GONZALEZ - In: REVISTA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS (2007)
. Among the variables consideredare fertility, mortality, epidemiologic change, health coverage, change in age patterns … mortality rate has decreased to 68%. Likewise,epidemiologic change and health coverage have produced a change in mortality …
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A conversation with Richard Easterlin
Macunovich, Diane J. - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 2, pp. 119-136
After an introduction touching on various biographical highlights, this paper summarizes a wide-ranging discussion with Richard Easterlin which occurred in the Autumn of 1996. We considered the Easterlin Hypothesis - its genesis and current status, together with Easterlin`s views on attempts to...
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Die demographische Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland : Gutachten im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Ragnitz, Joachim; Eichler, Stefan; Grundig, Beate; … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
In den neuen Bundesländern wird die Bevölkerung auch in den kommenden Jahren weiter massiv schrumpfen. Dieser absehbare Rückgang der Bevölkerung und die damit einhergehende Alterung kann die gesamtwirtschaftliche Dynamik dämpfen. Aus diesem Grund wurde im Auftrag des...
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
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A Refinement to Ait-Sahalia's (2002) Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Discretely Sampled Diffusions : A Closed-Form Approximation Approach
Bakshi, Gurdip - 2004
functions. In addition, it facilitates the maximum likelihood estimation of discretely sampled diffusion models of short …
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Population Aging
Weil, David N. - 2010
Population aging is primarily the result of past declines in fertility, which produced a decadeslong period in which the ratio of dependents to working age adults was reduced. Rising old-age dependency in many countries represents the inevitable passing of this quot;demographic...
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Some patterns of location of the spanish population throughout century XX
Goerlich Gisbert, Francisco José; Mas, Matilde - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2008) 12, pp. 5-33
This paper looks at localization patterns in municipal population in Spain along the XX century. Using a homogeneous data base of population at the municipal level —constructed from the eleven censuses from 1900 until 2001— the paper describes the general patterns of population concentration...
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Structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the...
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