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Author: Peter Rupert
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2008-06-23
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 184950542X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the years there has been substantial changes in the size, composition, educational level, work activity, and locational choice of families. This book offers an understanding of the forces that have led to the choices and consequent observed changes.
Author: Peter Rupert
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2008-06-23
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0444532633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the years there has been substantial changes in the size, composition, educational level, work activity, and locational choice of families. This book offers an understanding of the forces that have led to the choices and consequent observed changes.
Author: Martin Browning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 0521791596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive, modern, and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. It is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.
Author: M.R. Rosenzweig
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Published: 1997-04-23
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780444826459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises 21 articles that survey areas of research in population and family economics.
Author: Mitch Pearlstein
Publisher: R&L Education
Published: 2011-09-16
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1607093634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVery high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making millions of Americans less competitive in an increasingly demanding worldwide marketplace. All of which is leading – and can only lead – to deepening class divisions in a nation which has never viewed itself or operated in such splintered ways. What can be done to reverse these severely destructive trends, starting with reducing the enormous number of children forced to grow up with only one parent living under the same roof? What educational reforms are most likely to help under such demanding circumstances? And as dangerous as the situation is, why do leaders in education and other fields persist, for both understandable and less-worthy reasons, in dancing around profoundly important questions of family breakdown to the point of contortion and ultimately failure?
Author: joan e cashin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0195053443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis social history examines the westward migration of US farming families from the southern seaboard in the years before the American Civil War.
Author: Solomon W. Polachek
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2014-11-07
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1784411493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume puts the spotlight on worker well-being. It looks at key questions such as: How important is incentive pay in increasing worker productivity? Does monitoring productivity affect a worker's earnings trajectory? How is the decision to retire different in two-earner families compared to one-earner families?
Author: Mark Richard Rosenzweig
Publisher: North-Holland
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collection of chapters in the "Handbook of Population and Family Economics" and their organization reflect the most recent developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. The rationale, contents, and organization of the "Handbook" evolve from three premises. First, the family is the main arena in which population outcomes are forged. Second, there are important interactions and significant causal links across all demographic phenomena. Third, the study of the size, composition, and growth of a population can benefit from the application of economic methodology and tools. The diversity and depth of the work reviewed and presented in the "Handbook" conveys both the progress that has been made by economists in understanding the forces shaping population processes, including the behavior of families, and the many questions, empirical and theoretical, that still remain. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http: //www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes
Author: Jeremy Greenwood
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2019-01-29
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0262039230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models. In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that technological progress has had as significant an effect on households as it had on industry. Taking a macroeconomic perspective, Greenwood develops simple economic models to study such phenomena as the rise in married female labor force participation, changes in fertility rates, the decline in marriage, and increased longevity. These trends represent a dramatic transformation in everyday life, and they were made possible by advancements in technology. Greenwood also addresses how technological progress can cause social change. Greenwood shows, for example, how electricity and labor-saving appliances freed women from full-time household drudgery and enabled them to enter the labor market. He explains that fertility dropped when higher wages increased the opportunity cost of having children; he attributes the post–World War II baby boom to a combination of labor-saving household technology and advances in obstetrics and pediatrics. Marriage rates declined when single households became more economically feasible; people could be more discriminating in their choice of a mate. Technological progress also affects social and cultural norms. Innovation in contraception ushered in a sexual revolution. Labor-saving technological progress at home, together with mechanization in industry that led to an increase in the value of brain relative to brawn for jobs, fostered the advancement of women's rights in the workplace. Finally, Greenwood attributes increased longevity to advances in medical technology and rising living standards, and he examines healthcare spending, the development of new drugs, and the growing portion of life now spent in retirement.
Author: Bernard Chavance
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1134059884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to institutional economics, follows the history of the field since the early 20th century until the present day. It concentrates on influential authors in the main schools of institutional economics. Institutional economics is defined as economic thought that considers institutions to be relevant for economic theory, and consequently criticizes the neoclassical mainstream for having pushed them out of the discipline; it deals specially with the nature, the origin, the change of institutions, and their effects on economic performance. It is a family of different theories that were initially influential in economics, then lost much of their weight in the middle half of the 20th century, and eventually recovered significant creative vitality and impact in the last twenty years. The book puts the recent developments in historical perspective by showing how important themes like the importance of habits, the role of formal and informal rules, the relation of organizations and institutions, the hierarchy and complementarity of institutions, the evolutionary character of institutional change, have been explored by various authors or schools.
