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Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries : The Legacy of Central Planning in E…
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was…
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- 9783030233921
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- xviii, 383 p.
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- -
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- 307.76809479 HOU D
Shared physical custody : interdisciplinary insights in child custody arrange…
This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution i…
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- 9
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- 9783030684792
- Collation
- 331p;
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- -
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- 346.173 SHA L
Outh-north migration of eu citizens in times of crisis
The global fi nancial and economic crisis has been hitting the European Union severely since 2008. Although the economic crisis began in advanced economies and then spread all over the globe, its impact and implications are far from being equally distributed geographically. This is particularly visible within the European Union. While some countries, mainly in the North,…
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- 9783319397634
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- 224 p.
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- 304.8. MIKO o
Divorce in Europe : new insights in trends, causes and consequences of relati…
This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups influence divorce trends or is there a renewed stability on the partner market? In terms of divorce risks, the book contains new insights o…
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- 9783030258382
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- xiii, 370p. : ill.
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- 304.6 MOR d
Developments in demographic forecasting
This open access book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. For each component emerging methods to forecast them are presented. Moreover, instruments for forecasting evaluation are provided. Bayesian models, nonparametric models, cohort approaches, elicitation of expert opinion, evaluation of probabilistic forecasts …
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- 9783030424725
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- viii, 258p. : ill.
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- 304.6 DEV d
Population dynamics in prehistory and early history : new approaches by using…
Migrations and population dynamics are considered very problematic topics in the fields of ancient studies. Recent scholarship in (pre)historical population has generated new impulses by using scientific approaches using radiogenic and stable isotopes, and palaeogenetics, as well as computer simulation. As a result, the state of migration research has undergone rapid change. Several research gr…
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- 9783110266306
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- X, 353 p.
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- Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt, 5
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- 599.9 POP p
Childlessness in Europe : contexts, causes, and consequences
This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region. The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Ki…
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- 9783319446677
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- xi, 370p. : ill.
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- -
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- 306.85094 CHI c
Sequence analysis and related approaches : innovative methods and applications
This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the time use. The applications as well as the methodological contributions proposed in this book pay special attention to the combin…
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- -
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- 9783319954202
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- xii, 298p. : ill.
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- -
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- 001.42 SEQ s
Old and new perspectives on mortality forecasting
This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as behavioural and biological perspectives. The different parts of the book provide discussions of current practice, probabilistic forec…
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- 9783030050757
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- xi, 349p. : ill.
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- -
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- 304.64 OLD o
Social statistics and nthnic diversity: cross-national perspectives in classi…
This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe characteristics of ethnic and racial groups, identify factors of social and economic integration and implement policies to redress discrimination. It offers a global perspective on the issue by looking at race and ethnicity in a wide variety of historical, country-specific…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319200958
- Collation
- 2015
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- -
- Call Number
- 304.60727 SIM s
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