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In diesem Essential finden Personalverantwortliche und Führungskräfte ausgewählte Hintergrundinformationen zum Thema demografischer Wandel sowie Impulse für ein innovatives und zukunftsfähiges Personalmanagement, das die damit zusammenhängenden Entwicklungen...
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Springer Gabler
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2015-07-06
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Prestige examines whether social prestige is still an important axis of the stratification hierarchy. It appears that prestige has lost some of the close connection with social position it had in estates societies.Prestige distribution patterns have changed and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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This book covers several dimensions of the undercount of young children in the U.S. Decennial Census, examines the data from the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census in detail and looks at trends in the undercount of children over time. Other aspects included are the geographic...
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Springer
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2015-06-05
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Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources...
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Penguin
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2015-06-04
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This book discusses the viability of «importing» the middle class to Poland. The 1990s were a step forward in the formation of the Polish middle class and, systematically yet barely discernible in daily life, the process was triggered by an increase in consumption and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent’s most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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This Brief studies the important role that tattoos play in prison culture, and examines its unique manifestation among minority inmates.This work aims to provide a better understanding of prison group culture, particularly among social marginal groups, through the lens...
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Springer
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2015-03-10
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Immigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries. This clear and perceptive text discusses how immigration impacts population size, composition, and distribution. The...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-03-05
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-05
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The guiding theme of the book is a traditional institution of Tajik culture: mahalla – neighborhood. For centuries it has sustained the existence of Tajik culture, and in times of the greatest religious persecution in the USSR it has helped Islam to survive. In this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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This book provides a portrait of the family in France today, revealing many of the deep-seated, demographic changes that have affected French society in recent decades. It first focuses on conjugal and family trajectories, examining union formation, types of union,...
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Springer
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2014-11-28
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This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well...
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Springer
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2014-11-18
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This book addresses systematically and quantitatively the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models. Six background chapters summarize past trends in fertility, mortality, migration, and education; examine relevant theories and identify key...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives showcases important efforts to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. The book, a project of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association, describes the...
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Springer
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2014-08-19
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Young people and their activities always have been a part of history – yet such narratives have remained mostly untold and often lost in the sands of time. This unprecedented and international collection sheds light on youth’s hidden histories from the nineteenth...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-08-15
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Natural and manmade disasters do not affect everyone equally, especially when resources are not equally accessible. Girls and women in particular face heightened risks of violence and abuse and many countries bar female-headed households from receiving aid. Across the...
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Springer
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2014-08-05
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Kommunale Wahlkämpfe wurden in der Wahlkampfforschung bislang wenig beachtet. Dabei finden insbesondere zu den Oberbürgermeister- und Landratswahlen Kampagnen statt, die einen weitgehend unverfälschten Blick in das Geschehen vor Ort zulassen. Da Personenwahlkämpfe um...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-25
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. How can they help to explain what brings...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-07-08
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Immigration and Society
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The book consists of articles from East European Politics and Societies, a journal published in the United States that first appeared in 1987. This selection is composed of papers written by the journal’s founders and early authors, among them Zygmunt Bauman, Tony Judt,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-19
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Der Band schildert Geschichte und Gegenwart der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen aus der Perspektive der gemeinsamen Migrationserfahrungen. Im ersten Teil widmen sich die Beiträge der Beschreibung der unterschiedlichen Migrationsformen auf dem Alten Kontinent und in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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