Studies concerned with the relations between population factors as a whole and economic aspects. Relations affecting a single demographic variable and economic factors are coded under the variable concerned and cross-referenced to this division, if appropriate.
Studies concerned equally with economic and social development. Most studies on the microeconomics of the family will be found in G.2. Family and Household and cross-referenced to this division, if appropriate.
Studies on economic and social development with a worldwide emphasis, together with those with no geographical emphasis.
62:30615 Bengtsson, Tommy; Gunnarsson,
Christer. Population, development, and institutional
change: summary and analysis. In: Population, economic
development, and the environment, edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling
and Hans Landberg. 1994. 1-23 pp. Oxford University Press: New York,
New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"Here the interplay between
population and development will be considered in greater detail,
especially the significance of institutions for development....In
Section 1 we discuss general links between population and development.
Section 2 considers what distinguishes poor societies from rich.
Section 3 discusses how the transition from poverty to prosperity was
accomplished in various parts of the world and Section 4 looks at how
institutional development contributed to this process. Finally, in
Section 5, we discuss what we have learnt from the
past."
Correspondence: T. Bengtsson, University of
Lund, Department of Economic History, P.O. Box 7083, 220 07 Lund,
Sweden. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30616 Galor, Oded; Weil, David N.
The gender gap, fertility, and growth. American Economic
Review, Vol. 86, No. 3, Jun 1996. 374-87 pp. Nashville, Tennessee. In
Eng.
"This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility
and growth. There are three components to the model: first, increases
in capital per worker raise women's relative wages, since capital is
more complementary to women's labor input than to men's. Second,
increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost
of children more than household income. And third, lower fertility
raises the level of capital per worker. This positive feedback loop
generates a demographic transition: a rapid decline in fertility
accompanied by accelerated output growth."
Correspondence:
O. Galor, Brown University, Department of Economics, Box B, 64
Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912. Location: Princeton
University Library (PF).
General studies on the relations between population factors and economic development in developing countries. Includes studies on dependency as they relate to developing countries.
62:30617 Chang, Kyung-Sup. Birth
and wealth in peasant China: surplus population, limited supplies of
family labor, and economic reform. In: China: the many facets of
demographic change, edited by Alice Goldstein and Wang Feng. 1996.
21-45 pp. Westview Press: Boulder, Colorado/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"As an effort to understand the Chinese experience of rural
reform in a more concrete way, we touch upon the complex relationship
between population change and economic development as it is shaped by
the production and welfare functions of the peasant family. We have
theoretically argued and empirically shown that the family-reliant
strategy of economic reform fundamentally undercuts the effectiveness
of population control programs. The main implication of our analysis is
that sustained industrialization with high labor absorption appears to
be the ultimate solution for the burdensome contradiction between
China's demographic and economic changes and also for the uneasy
tension plaguing the otherwise highly symbiotic relationship between
the state and peasant society."
Correspondence: K.-S.
Chang, Seoul National University, Department of Sociology, Sinlim-dong,
Kwanak-gu, Seoul 151, Republic of Korea. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30618 Crook, Nigel. Population
and poverty in classical theory: testing a structural model for
India. Population Studies, Vol. 50, No. 2, Jul 1996. 173-85 pp.
London, England. In Eng.
"This paper develops a simple
structural model to investigate the relationship between population
growth and poverty [in India] testing a series of hypotheses developed
from the work of Marx and Malthus. The data are analysed at state
level, and attention is drawn to the problems that this might cause as
behaviour is typically determined at the individual household level.
The results show that agricultural productivity and the process of
landlessness are better predictors of poverty at a state level than the
population growth rate. It is argued that the results fit better with
the views of Marx than those of Malthus."
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30619 Durand, Jorge; Parrado, Emilio A.;
Massey, Douglas S. Migradollars and development: a
reconsideration of the Mexican case. International Migration
Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 1996. 423-44 pp. New York, New York. In
Eng.
"Economic arguments, quantitative data, and ethnographic
case studies are presented to counter popular misconceptions about
international labor migration and its economic consequences in Mexico.
The prevailing view is that Mexico-U.S. migration discourages
autonomous economic growth within Mexico, at both the local and
national levels, and that it promotes economic dependency. However,
results estimated from a multiplier model suggest that the inflow of
migradollars stimulates economic activity, both directly and
indirectly, and that it leads to significantly higher levels of
employment, investment, and income within specific communities and the
nation as a whole. The annual arrival of around $2 billion migradollars
generates economic activity that accounts for 10 percent of Mexico's
output and 3 percent of its Gross Domestic
Product."
Correspondence: J. Durand, University of
Guadalajara, Center for Research on Social Movements, Avenida Juarez
974, Sector Juarez, 44100 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30620 Goldstein, Alice; Wang,
Feng. China: the many facets of demographic change.
Brown University Studies in Population and Development, ISBN
0-8133-9002-8. LC 96-17781. 1996. xv, 214 pp. Westview Press: Boulder,
Colorado/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"The eleven chapters in this
volume center around three themes. First is the extent to which
socioeconomic changes affect demographic behavior [in China].
Specifically, what has been the role of development, including
urbanization, mass education, non-familial employment, and public
health programs in fertility and mortality decline? Second is the
interaction between the state and society. Faced with a strong state
and a stringent policy of population control, how do individuals cope,
and how does the response [from] individuals in turn affect government
decisions in policy implementation? Finally, to what extent will
demographic changes affect China's socioeconomic
development?"
Selected items will be cited in this or
subsequent issues of Population Index.
Correspondence:
Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301-2877.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30621 Gule, Gugulethu.
Population growth and development in Swaziland. UNISWA
Research Journal, Vol. 8, Feb 1994. 1-6 pp. Kwaluseni, Swaziland. In
Eng.
"This paper discusses issues pertaining to population and
development in Swaziland, particularly focusing on the dire
consequences of the country's rapid and accelerating rate of population
growth....It further suggests strategies that could be adopted for
abating Swaziland's population problem."
Correspondence:
G. Gule, University of Swaziland, Department of Statistics and
Demography, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland. Location:
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
62:30622 Hu, You-Hwey. Dependency
structure of the elderly: an examination of women's social position in
Taiwan. Journal of Population Studies, No. 17, Apr 1996. 83-112
pp. Taipei, Taiwan. In Chi. with sum. in Eng.
"The purpose of
the paper is to examine the nature and the structure of elderly women's
dependency [in Taiwan] and the underlying socio-cultural-political
forces. From the social constructive perspective, we focused on three
constructive forces--the Chinese patriarchal/patrilocal family system,
the gender role, and the state policy on elderly welfare. Three types
of dependency--economic dependency, dependency for personal and health
care, and living arrangement--were
examined."
Correspondence: Y.-H. Hu, National
Yang-Ming University, Graduate Institute of Health and Social Policy,
Taiwan. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30623 Martin, Jean. Population
growth, resources and health: challenges for public health
professionals. Sozial- und Präventivmedizin/Médecine
Sociale et Preventive, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1995. 270-4 pp. Basel,
Switzerland. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Ger.
The implications of
current global trends in population growth and resource depletion are
assessed, with particular reference to impacts on public health. The
author notes that resource depletion is, at present, primarily a
problem for developed countries, whereas the problem of population
growth is confined to selected developing countries. The role that
public health professionals might play in increasing awareness of these
problems is discussed.
Correspondence: J. Martin, Service
de la Santé Publique, 1014 Lausanne, Switzerland. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30624 Tesfaye, Kebede. The
impact of development projects on population dynamics. Population
and Development Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 1, Mar 1994. 37-45 pp. Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. In Eng.
"Given the fact that about 70 per
cent of the population of the world are rural, poor and agriculturally
based, it makes a great deal of sense to focus on development projects
targeted to this segment of the population. Thus, in an effort to
improve incomes and living conditions and to minimize rural
out-migration of the population sector, governments have initiated and
implemented several projects and programs including integrated rural
development, community development activities, rural employment
promotion projects, and farm settlement schemes. These and other
projects affect demographic patterns by influencing the size and
density of population, characteristics and structure of population,
fertility and mortality behaviour, and migration. The focus of this
paper will, therefore, be to examine these
impacts."
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:30625 Tian, Xueyuan. On
sustainable development of population and national economy.
Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1995. 201-12 pp.
New York, New York. In Eng.
"The author of this article holds
that sustainable development of the population and sustainable
development of the national economy lay the foundation for all
sustainable development, and that the essence of this foundation is to
achieve sustainable development in such areas as the total population
and the means of subsistence, the working-age population and the means
of production, population quality and economic and technological
progress, aging population and pension systems, population urbanization
and the rationalization of industrial structures, as well as the
population's geographic distribution and the rationalization in the
allocation of productive forces. Taking into consideration China's
specific conditions, the article proposes a basic strategy regarding
sustainable development of the population and the national
economy."
Correspondence: X. Tian, Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, Population Research Institute, 5 Jianguomen Nei Da Jie
5 Hao, Beijing, China. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:30626 Tolts, Mark.
Modernization of demographic behaviour in the Muslim republics of
the former USSR. In: Muslim Eurasia: conflicting legacies, edited
by Yaacov Ro'i. 1995. 231-53 pp. Frank Cass: London, England. In Eng.
"Analysis of demographic processes can be very useful for
understanding the level of modernization as a whole among the Muslim
populations of Azerbaijan and ex-Soviet Central Asia including
Kazakhstan, and can offer a perspective on the development of the newly
independent Muslim states. The present chapter aims...to make such an
analysis. The traditional approach to an analysis of demographic
processes in the former USSR would compare the populations of the
Muslim and non-Muslim republics. However, for a better understanding of
ex-Soviet Muslim demographic indicators, it is more useful and
appropriate to compare them with the Muslim populations of the Middle
East and Northern Africa, and this is the approach we have
chosen."
Correspondence: M. Tolts, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Division of Jewish
Demography and Statistics, Gaster Building, Mount Scopus Campus,
Jerusalem 91905, Israel. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:30627 West, Loraine A.
Vietnam: subnational demographic and socio-economic variation.
IPC Staff Paper, No. 79, Feb 1996. x, 96 pp. U.S. Bureau of the Census,
International Programs Center: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"Vietnam announced its program of restructuring known as Doi
Moi in 1986 and accelerated the pace of reforms in 1989. This study
seeks to better understand the dynamics of reform by examining
subnational data to identify regional variation in growth and
development and to determine the magnitude of the disparity across
regions. Statistics on migration also are reviewed to discern whether
uneven growth is stimulating labor flows. In addition, this study
addresses the question of the extent and effect of deterioration in
rural health and education."
Correspondence: U.S.
Bureau of the Census, International Programs Center, Washington, D.C.
20233. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Studies on the relations between population and economic factors as they affect the developed world. Also includes studies on the economic effects of a stationary or declining population, the effects of aging on the economy, retirement, and problems of economic dependency in developed countries.
62:30628 Henripin, Jacques. The
financial consequences of population aging. Collection de
Tirés à Part, No. 347, [1994?]. [16] pp.
Université de Montréal, Département de
Démographie: Montreal, Canada. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
"The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) the measurement of
public expenditures--on children, health and pensions--per employed
worker, in relation to the future age composition of the population;
[and] (2) the estimation of possible reductions in public expenditures
that could result from different levels of women's labour force
participation, retirement age, fertility, and productivity of two
sectors of the economy....It is argued that: (1) population aging can
have significant financial consequences, especially if a low level of
fertility is combined with an increase in life expectancy; (2)
immigration has little impact on population aging and its financial
implications; (3) the financial consequences could be large with
respect to health care and pensions; (4) given increases of
productivity in the domain of health care...substantial increases in
health costs per employed worker seem likely; and (5) significant
reductions in the financial burden could be obtained by a return to
replacement level fertility." The geographical focus is on
developed countries.
Correspondence: Université de
Montréal, Département de Démographie, C.P. 6128,
Succursale A, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30629 Meijdam, Lex; Verbon, Harrie A.
A. Aging and political decision making on public
pensions. Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 9, No. 2, May
1996. 141-58 pp. New York, New York/Berlin, Germany. In Eng.
"In this paper decision making on public pensions in a
representative democracy is modeled within the framework of the
well-known two-overlapping-generations (OLG) general-equilibrium model
with rational expectations. The model is used to analyze the effects of
aging on the economy in general and on the evolution of public pension
schemes in particular, where aging is interpreted as a combination of a
decrease in the rate of population growth and an increase in the
political influence of pensioners. Analytical results are derived for
the long run as well as for the short run by the method of comparative
statics and comparative dynamics respectively. It appears that an
increase in transfers to the old is not guaranteed if due to aging
their political power increases."
Correspondence: H.
A. A. Verbon, Tilburg University, Department of Economics, P.O. Box
90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
Studies on the environment, quality of life, conservation, food production, etc., and their interrelations with population factors.
62:30630 Abernethy, Virginia.
First do no harm. Current World Leaders, Vol. 36, No. 6, Dec
1993. 1,125-34 pp. Santa Barbara, California. In Eng.
Many
traditional societies, which have long survived in balance with the
carrying capacity of their local environments, have recently
experienced rapid rates of population growth that threaten their
survival. In examining the reasons for these deleterious trends, the
author notes that they have occurred despite international
technological assistance, improved health care, increased literacy,
democratization, and liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring
developing countries. "She argues that well meant programs and
policies work at cross purposes with their stated goals when they
dispel motivation to exercise caution and restraint. Family size
targets stay high or rise when people think that limits which formerly
operated have been relieved; so a windfall of resources or emigration
opportunity frequently results in a population explosion in the region
supposedly being helped."
Correspondence: V.
Abernethy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of
Psychiatry, Nashville, TN 37235. Location: Princeton
University Library (FST).
62:30631 Ahmad, Alia. Population
growth, poverty and environment in Bangladesh. In: Demography,
economy and welfare, edited by Christer Lundh. 1995. 366-78 pp. Lund
University Press: Lund, Sweden; Chartwell-Bratt: Bromley, England. In
Eng.
The author analyzes the interactions among population growth,
depleting natural resources, and poverty in Bangladesh. "This
paper...stresses the need for environmentally sound poverty alleviation
measures as an essential component of [the] family planning programme.
The paper is organised in three sections. The first section is devoted
to changes in agricultural practices in response to population growth
and their effects on output, poverty and the environment. The second
section analyses reproductive behaviour under poverty and extreme
environmental distress. The last section contains conclusions and
policy issues."
Correspondence: A. Ahmad, University
of Lund, Department of Economics, P.O. Box 117, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30632 Brown, Lester R.; Kane, Hal.
Full house: reassessing the earth's population carrying
capacity. Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series, ISBN
0-393-03713-4. 1994. 261 pp. W. W. Norton: New York, New York/London,
England. In Eng.
This study discusses the prospects for feeding the
world's continually growing population. The authors note that
improvements in technology and crop yields have enabled food output to
keep even pace with the growth of population in most parts of the world
to date. However, they argue that most of the available improvements
have already been made, and that the chances of a new quantum leap in
food output is minimal. In some areas of food production, such as
fishing, stocks and yields are already in decline from overharvesting.
The authors point out that the only available strategy for feeding the
growing number of people is to continue to overuse existing
resources.They then describe the ecological and environmental
consequences of this course of action.
Correspondence: W.
W. Norton, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
62:30633 Clarke, John I. People
in deserts. Espace, Populations, Sociétés, No. 1,
1996. 23-8 pp. Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
The relation between population and environment in arid regions is
examined. "Although the population of the arid world, now 15 per
cent of the world total on 37 per cent of the earth's surface, is
growing rapidly, population pressure is not always the prime factor in
the phenomenon of desertification, which varies greatly in time and
space. Population distribution is increasingly concentrated in cities
localised in small areas of arid countries, which, as in the case of
Jordan, are beginning to introduce policies for the sustainable
development of their arid regions."
Correspondence: J.
I. Clarke, University of Durham, Department of Geography, South Road,
Durham DH1 3LE, England. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:30634 Collomb, Philippe.
Feeding the world's population in 2050. [L'alimentation de la
population mondiale en 2050.] Population et Sociétés, No.
312, Apr 1996. 4 pp. Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques
[INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
In the light of an upcoming global
food conference organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization in
1996, the author examines aspects of the global food supply question.
He discusses the current situation, estimates what will be needed to
feed the world's population in 2050, and describes the changes in diet
associated with development.
Correspondence: Institut
National d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675
Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:30635 Dasgupta, Partha; Folke, Carl;
Mäler, Karl-Göran. The environmental resource
base and human welfare. In: Population, economic development, and
the environment, edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg.
1994. 25-50 pp. Oxford University Press: New York, New York/Oxford,
England. In Eng.
"Certain dynamic effects tend to be ignored
(and often, not even perceived) when economists attempt to aggregate
values derived from partial observations of expenditure patterns in the
wake of some change in the level of ecological resources or services.
In the remainder of this overview, we will try to identify the
implications of these observations for economic policy in poor
countries." Sections are included on the resource base and human
welfare; land and water needs; institutional failure and poverty as
causes of environmental degradation; population and the local resource
base; global externalities; and product evaluation and the measurement
of net national product.
Correspondence: P. Dasgupta,
University of Cambridge, Department of Economics, Cambridge CB2 1TN,
England. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30636 Duchin, Faye. Population
change, lifestyle, and technology: how much difference can they
make? Population and Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, Jun 1996.
321-30, 410, 412 pp. New York, New York. In Eng. with sum. in Spa; Fre.
"The note describes a line of inquiry into social, economic,
and environmental interactions as a basis for avoiding undesirable
outcomes and pursuing promising ones. First it reports empirical
results suggesting that the recommendations of the Brundtland Report
(which popularized `sustainable development' as a social objective),
contrary to the document's intentions and claims, would put increasing
pressure on the environment over the next several decades. Based on
this conclusion, the note argues that: (1) The choice of technology in
production facilities and the lifestyle choices of different kinds of
households are two areas in which changes can actually be made. (2) If
we are able to provide new alternative strategies for changes in
lifestyles and technologies, the analytic framework that is described
can be used to examine the likely consequences. New concepts and
methods are proposed for the systematic description of lifestyles and
lifestyle alternatives."
Correspondence: F. Duchin,
New York University, Institute for Economic Analysis, New York, NY
10003. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30637 Hern, Warren M. Has the
human species become a cancer on the planet? A theoretical view of
population growth as a sign of pathology. Current World Leaders,
Vol. 36, No. 6, Dec 1993. 1,089-124 pp. Santa Barbara, California. In
Eng.
The author describes current global population trends as being
similar to the development of a cancer in the living body. "The
human species, through the instrument of culture, has become the
dominant force of planetary ecological change. Our adaptations have
become maladaptive. Moreover, the human species as a whole now displays
all four major characteristics of a malignant process: rapid,
uncontrolled growth; invasion and destruction of adjacent normal
tissues (ecosystems); metastasis (distant colonization); and
dedifferentiation (loss of distinctiveness in individual components).
We have become a malignant ecopathologic process. If this diagnosis is
true, what is the prognosis? The difference between us and most forms
of cancer is that we can think, and we can decide not to be a
cancer."
Correspondence: W. M. Hern, University of
Colorado, Institute of Behavioral Science, Boulder, CO 80309-0233.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
62:30638 Holling, C. S. An
ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict. In: Population,
economic development, and the environment, edited by Kerstin
Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg. 1994. 79-103 pp. Oxford University
Press: New York, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
The author
discusses problems caused by population growth "from the
perspective of ecology--particularly from those fields of ecology that
deal with populations of organisms. I will do so by exploring three
questions: 1. Why are ecologists so gloomily Malthusian?...2. Why,
then, has the world not collapsed long ago?...3. Why, then, worry about
the negative impacts of growth in human populations and
activities?"
Correspondence: C. S. Holling, University
of Florida, Department of Zoology, Arthur R. Marshall Ecosystem
Laboratory, Gainesville, FL 32611. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30639 International Union for Conservation
of Nature and Natural Resources [IUCN] (Gland, Switzerland); Bangladesh
Rural Development Board (Dhaka, Bangladesh). People,
development and environment: complex interlinkages in Bangladesh.
ISBN 2-8317-0192-9. 1993. iv, 170 pp. Gland, Switzerland. In Eng.
These are the proceedings of a conference held in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, November 3-4, 1992. The conference examined the
relationships among population, development, and environmental issues
in Bangladesh. The report from the conference "emphasised the need
for models, for sustainable resource use, for the participation of
people throughout the community in discussions about their own future,
for legal reforms to ensure protection of the environment and the
safeguarding of human rights, and for monitoring and the continuing
adjustment of policies and actions, as the development process unfolds.
It avoided the over-simplification which so often characterizes
discussions of population issues today."
Correspondence:
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources, Conservation Services Division, Rue de Mauverney 28, 1196
Gland, Switzerland. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:30640 James, K. S.
Sustainability in the midst of scarcity: a case of Travancore,
Kerala. Demography India, Vol. 24, No. 1, Jan-Jun 1995. 23-32 pp.
Delhi, India. In Eng.
"How did the population of Travancore
[in Kerala State, India] manage to sustain a high growth rate of
population despite a situation of worsening land-man ratio? This is the
basic question that is addressed...in this paper....The first section
is mainly an attempt to understand the magnitude of population growth
and the related food situation in Travancore. The second section
exposes the government interventions and their impact on the economic
life of the people of Travancore particularly during periods of
scarcity. The final section proposes [an]...explanation [of] the theory
of sustainable growth of population."
Correspondence:
K. S. James, Centre for Development Studies, Prasantanagar Road,
Ulloor, Trivandrum 695 011, Kerala State, India. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30641 Lindahl-Kiessling, Kerstin; Landberg,
Hans. Population, economic development, and the
environment. ISBN 0-19-828950-2. 1994. xxii, 284 pp. Oxford
University Press: New York, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"The chapters that make up this volume have sprung from the
conviction that we need a deeper understanding of the complex
interactions between the social systems and the physical, chemical, and
biological interactive processes that regulate the earth system and,
consequently, also provide the unique environment that makes human life
as we know it today possible....The material...is based on a series of
seminars [held in Sweden] at which seven distinguished scholars from
different fields of study delivered public lectures, the aim of which
was to illuminate the population, environment, development nexus from a
number of interrelated perspectives."
Selected items will be
cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: Oxford University Press, Walton
Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30642 Najam, Adil. A
developing countries' perspective on population, environment, and
development. Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 15, No.
1, Feb 1996. 1-19 pp. Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
"The
subject of this paper is the political behavior of developing states
(the South) on issues of population, environment and development. It
attempts to understand why the South is so weary of international
population policy in the name of the environment. It argues that the
South's response is shaped by five inter-related concerns about
responsibility, efficiency, efficacy, additionality, and
sovereignty....It is maintained that these concerns have historically
guided the positions of the South and remain valid and relevant
today....It is proposed that although a grand North-South bargain
around population-environment-development issues remains unlikely, both
sides can gain much from trying to understand--even where they do not
agree with--the other's concerns. The purpose of this study is not as
much to defend the South's position, as to present it and the rationale
behind it."
Correspondence: A. Najam, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 77
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30643 Newman, Peter.
Australia's population carrying capacity: an analysis of eight
natural resources. ISBN 0-86905-347-7. LC 96-118168. [1994?]. 109
pp. Murdoch University, Institute for Science and Technology Policy:
Murdoch, Australia. In Eng.
"This report will examine
Australia's population carrying capacity from a range of
perspectives--water, food and fibre, forests and timber, marine
resources and energy....[It] will look at each of the resources
outlined above and make an estimate of the population carrying capacity
based on its use alone. Each chapter will estimate the carrying
capacity based on present consumption and technology. Each chapter will
then look at the affluence and technology factors to see how much more
room they may possibly provide if we were to reduce consumption per
capita and reduce the impact for each unit of consumption. Finally for
each of these resources there will be a discussion of the `Stupidity
Factor'. This is the way that the resource is put under pressure, not
from population, not from affluence, not from inadequate technology,
but just plain stupidity....A final chapter will then draw the separate
population carrying capacity estimates together to see how they reveal
our vulnerabilities and the implications for population
policy."
Correspondence: Murdoch University, Institute
for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30644 Preston, Samuel H. The
effect of population growth on environmental quality. Population
Research and Policy Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, Apr 1996. 95-108 pp.
Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
"This paper summarizes
research on the effect of population growth on environmental quality.
Land transformations induced by the spatial expansion of agriculture
are probably the major route by which population growth has affected
features of the natural environment. These transformations are not
automatic and their extent is influenced by social institutions.
Intensification of agricultural land use is an alternative response
with its own set of environmental implications. These are especially
salient in the case of expanded irrigation. In contrast to relations in
the agricultural sector, a new version of the conventional I=PAT
equation is introduced to suggest that population growth is a minor
influence on the extent of industrial pollution. Nevertheless,
population policy may play a useful role in strategies to reduce
industrial pollution."
Correspondence: S. H. Preston,
University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, 3718 Locust
Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30645 Royle, Stephen A.
Population and resources in Mauritius. Geography Review, Vol.
8, No. 5, May 1995. 35-41 pp. Oxford, England. In Eng.
"The
island of Mauritius was facing a crisis by the 1950s as the
relationship between its population and resources became
unbalanced....A two-pronged strategy was set in place to change the
relationship between population and resources. Firstly, an aggressive
family-planning policy was established, reducing population growth.
Secondly, the economy was diversified with tourism, financial services
and, especially, manufacturing in the Mauritius Export Processing Zone,
creating extra finance and resources. The changes have not been
cost-free but Mauritius ends the century, not as a classic case of
overpopulation, but more [as] a model micro-state that has overcome
many population and resource problems, largely through its own
efforts."
Correspondence: S. A. Royle, Queen's
University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. Location:
University of Minnesota Library, Minneapolis, MN.
62:30646 Srinivasan, T. N.; Robinson, James
A. Long-term consequences of population growth:
technological change, natural resources, and the environment.
Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper, No. 748, Nov 1995. iii, 131
pp. Yale University, Economic Growth Center: New Haven, Connecticut. In
Eng.
"This paper studies the processes of population growth,
technological progress, the utilization of natural resources and their
impact on the environment more generally....Contrary to past Malthusian
predictions, economic growth has raised per-capita welfare in
conjunction with the `demographic transition'." The authors
conclude that it is theoretically possible to achieve economic growth
and improved population welfare without negative effects on the
environment, but that this involves an alignment of private and social
objectives that has not yet been achieved.
Correspondence:
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, P.O. Box 208269, 27
Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520-8269. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30647 St Leger, Selwyn. The
APHEA project. Short term effects of air pollution on health: a
European approach using epidemiological time series data. Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health, Vol. 50, Suppl., No. 1, Apr 1996.
80 pp. BMJ Publishing: London, England. In Eng.
This special issue
is a product of the European Commission's APHEA project. "Its main
objective was to provide quantitative estimates, using standardised
methods, of the short term effects of air pollution in Europe, with
data from 15 large cities representing various social, cultural,
environmental, and air pollution situations. This supplement contains a
description of the APHEA project and a major part of its results."
The papers examine both mortality and morbidity associated with air
pollution in some of Europe's larger cities.
Correspondence:
BMJ Publishing Group, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H
9JR, England. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30648 Tiffen, Mary; Mortimore, Michael;
Gichuki, Francis. More people, less erosion: environmental
recovery in Kenya. ISBN 0-471-94143-3. LC 93-2192. Jul 1994. xii,
311 pp. John Wiley and Sons: New York, New York/Chichester, England. In
Eng.
This study "examines the interactions between people and
the environment of the semi-arid Machakos District, Kenya, over a
period of sixty years, from 1930 to 1990. In the 1930s the district was
considered an environmental disaster with famine relief and food
imports needed between 1942 and 1962. Over the sixty years between 1930
and 1990 the population of the District increased more than five-fold,
however the environment in 1990 was in a much better condition than in
the 1930s. Soil erosion had declined, due to terraces in place to
protect arable land, and predictions of a wood fuel crisis were not
fulfilled because of a larger number of farmed and protected trees.
Additionally, agricultural production...was higher, and new
technologies and farming systems had been introduced....This study
combines the findings of physical and social scientists from the
Overseas Development Institute, London and the University of Nairobi,
Kenya. It uses conventional data, oral history and photographic
records....The study concludes with an explanation of the positive
contribution that population growth in low density areas can have on
economic and social development, technology change and environmental
sustainability, under the right policies."
Correspondence:
John Wiley and Sons, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19
1UD, England. Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
Studies of employment and labor force statistics that are of demographic relevance. Includes studies of the labor force (employment status, occupation, and industry) and of the relations among employment, labor force participation, and population factors. Studies on the effect of female labor force participation on fertility are coded under F.1. General Fertility and cross-referenced here.
62:30649 Ardayfio-Schandorf,
Elizabeth. Women, population growth and commercialization
of fuelwood in northern Ghana. In: Women's position and
demographic change in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Paulina Makinwa and
An-Magritt Jensen. 1995. 351-61 pp. International Union for the
Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]: Liege, Belgium. In Eng.
"Throughout Africa the life of about 80 per cent of rural
women has been affected by the deterioration in environmental
conditions. In such rural household economies, where basic survival is
dependent to a large extent on environmental factors like water and
forest resources, women who live in environmentally degraded areas are
identified as belonging to the vulnerable groups of the continent.
Besides, most of these women are also the ones who depend on the forest
environment for their energy needs for household, commercial and
industrial purposes. Sweeping generalizations are often made about
women fuelwood producers. Sometimes they are mentioned in passing, but
who they are, the extent of their participation in the use and
management of fuelwood and other forestry products have not been well
researched into. This paper, therefore, attempts to contribute to the
growing literature on the subject and to shed more light on the status
of women in the fuelwood business." The geographical focus is on
northern Ghana.
Correspondence: E. Ardayfio-Schandorf,
University of Ghana, P.O. Box 25, Legon, Ghana. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30650 Borjas, George J.; Freeman, Richard
B.; Katz, Lawrence F. Searching for the effect of
immigration on the labor market. NBER Working Paper, No. 5454, Feb
1996. 9, [3] pp. National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]:
Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Eng.
"We compare two approaches
to analyzing the effects of immigration on the labor market and find
that the estimated effect of immigration on U.S. native labor outcomes
depends critically on the empirical experiment used. Area analyses
contrast the level or change in immigration by area with the level or
change in the outcomes of non-immigrant workers. Factor proportions
analyses treat immigrants as a source of increased national supply of
workers of the relevant skill....The different effects of immigration
on native outcomes in the area and factor proportions methodologies
appear to result from the diluting effect of native migration flows
across regions and failure to take adequate account of other regional
labor market conditions in area
comparisons."
Correspondence: National Bureau of
Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
62:30651 Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chakravarty,
Sumita. On employment segregation by sex. Demography
India, Vol. 24, No. 2, Jul-Dec 1995. 269-74 pp. Delhi, India. In Eng.
"The increasing consciousness about the earning inequality
between men and women [has] motivated economists to pay some attention
to the problem of employment segregation by sex....The purpose of this
paper is two-fold. Firstly, we characterize the well-known
Duncan-Duncan index using economically interesting axioms. Such an
axiomatization enables us to understand the most popular measure of
segregation from a deeper perspective. Next, we employ the
Duncan-Duncan measure to analyze employment segregation by sex in India
during the years 1981 and 1991."
Correspondence: S. R.
Chakravarty, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road,
Calcutta 700 035, India. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:30652 Chien, Wen-Yin; Hsueh,
Cherng-Tay. The employment of married women in Taiwan: its
patterns and causes. Journal of Population Studies, No. 17, Apr
1996. 113-34 pp. Taipei, Taiwan. In Chi. with sum. in Eng.
"This research attempts to explore the modes of women's job
careers in Taiwan. Using the 1991 wave of `Taiwanese Social Change
Surveys' data, we adopt the information regarding married female
respondents' job history since their marriage and found four major
modes of job careers in terms of family life cycles: never-stop,
stop-after-marriage, stop-after-birth, and never on job....We further
explore the explanatory factors (including individuals' traits, family
background factors, and current family statuses) with multi-nominal
logistic models."
Correspondence: W.-Y. Chien,
National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Sociology, Taipei,
Taiwan. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30653 Fang, Di. Japan's
growing economic activities and the attainment patterns of foreign-born
Japanese workers in the United States, 1979 to 1989. International
Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 1996. 511-34 pp. New York, New
York. In Eng.
"This study examines the impact of the economic
activities of Japan in the United States on the socioeconomic
attainments of foreign-born Japanese male workers in 1979 and 1989. It
demonstrates that working in wholesale trade, finance and manufacturing
industries, three major sectors of Japanese investment in America,
provided foreign-born male Japanese workers with the highest likelihood
of assuming managerial positions. Moreover, the managerial occupation
in turn provided the Japanese workers with the highest earnings
returns. This pattern is consistent over time and by length of
residence. The results suggest the importance of Japan's economic
globalization since the 1970s in explaining the socioeconomic
attainment patterns of foreign-born Japanese workers in the United
States."
This paper was originally presented at the 1993 Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of America.
Correspondence: D. Fang, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
14853. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30654 García Guzmán,
Brígida. Measuring the economically active
population in Mexico in the early 1990s. [La medición de la
población económicamente activa en México al
inicio de los años noventa.] Estudios Demográficos y
Urbanos, Vol. 9, No. 3, Sep-Dec 1994. 579-608, 784 pp. Mexico City,
Mexico. In Spa. with sum. in Eng.
"This paper refers to
problems of definition and measurement of the economically active
population in the early nineties in different Mexican sources of
information, considering in particular the 1990 Population Census and
the 1991 National Survey on Employment. The study analyzes in detail
the questions, reference periods, and coding systems of these two and
other previous surveys and censuses. Its findings allow us to state
that the 1990 Population Census is an adequate source of information
for analyzing [the] national full-time salaried work
force."
Correspondence: B. García
Guzmán, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios
Demográficos y de Desarrollo Urbano, Camino al Ajusco 20, 10740
Mexico City, DF, Mexico. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:30655 Green, Anne E. The
geography of dual career households: a research agenda and selected
evidence from secondary data sources for Britain. International
Journal of Population Geography, Vol. 1, No. 1, Sep 1995. 29-50 pp.
Chichester, England. In Eng.
"Amongst the key dimensions of
population and labour market change in most parts of western Europe and
other similar economies in the 1990s are low fertility rates, rising
numbers of smaller households, increasing female participation rates,
growth in higher level non-manual occupations and the spread of
flexible employment patterns. This paper explores how these trends have
led to an increase in the number and significance of one particular
subgroup: dual career households. An overview from available secondary
sources of the geography and socio-economic characteristics of such
households in Britain is presented, and directions for possible future
research on dual career households are
outlined."
Correspondence: A. E. Green, University of
Warwick, Institute for Employment Research, Coventry CV4 7AL, England.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30656 Gurak, Douglas T.; Kritz, Mary
M. Social context, household composition and employment
among migrant and nonmigrant Dominican women. International
Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 1996. 399-422 pp. New York,
New York. In Eng.
"The effects of household composition on the
employment of female immigrants from the Dominican Republic residing in
New York City and women residing in the Dominican Republic are
examined. The analysis indicates that context is more important than
group culture in explaining the labor force participation of Dominican
women. Dominican women residing in New York with children and no spouse
present are less likely to be employed than are either women who have
spouses or who have neither spouses nor children....The reverse pattern
holds in the Dominican Republic, where women living in households with
spouse present are least likely to be employed. The presence of adult
men other than the spouse in the household has effects consistent with
those for spouse in both contexts....Structural factors in the
Dominican Republic and New York City contexts that might account for
the differing dynamics are discussed."
Correspondence:
D. T. Gurak, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30657 Kahn, Joan R.; Whittington, Leslie
A. The labor supply of Latinas in the U.S.A.: comparing
labor force participation, wages, and hours worked with Anglo and Black
women. Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Feb
1996. 45-73 pp. Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
"This study
explores the determinants of labor supply patterns among Latinas in the
U.S.A. We use recent microeconomic data from the Panel Study on Income
Dynamics/Latino National Political Survey (PSID-LNPS) to estimate
models of labor force participation, wages, and hours worked for a
sample of Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican women. We estimate the same
models for Anglo and Black women in order to explore ethnic differences
in the impact of characteristics affecting both the reservation and the
market wage. We find that differences exist in the return to
characteristics, such as education, but that there are also substantial
differences in the levels of those characteristics across ethnic
groups. The low wage rates and labor market activity of Latinas
relative to Anglo and Black women are thus likely to be the combined
result of lower investments in human capital and larger family size,
the greater negative impact of macroeconomic conditions, and a stronger
responsiveness to wages."
This is a revised version of a paper
originally presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Population
Association of America.
Correspondence: L. A. Whittington,
University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, 2200 Symons Hall, College Park, MD 20742-5535. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30658 Kee, Peter.
Native-immigrant wage differentials in The Netherlands:
discrimination? Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 47, No. 2, Apr 1995.
302-17 pp. Oxford, England. In Eng.
"This article examines the
presence of discrimination in wage offers for Antillean, Surinam,
Turkish, and Moroccan immigrants in The Netherlands. The empirical
findings indicate that discrimination is present against Antilleans and
Turks, but not against Surinamese and Moroccans. The Antillean
treatment disadvantage accounts for 34% and the Turkish for 14% of the
wage gap with natives. Of the differences in observed characteristics,
that in experience is most important for Antilleans and Surinamese and
that in education for Turks and Moroccans. For all immigrants, the
major separate contribution comes from the relatively low number of
school years acquired in The Netherlands."
Correspondence:
P. Kee, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics and
Econometrics, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
62:30659 Mitchell, William. Why
high levels of net migration present problems for unemployment and
external debt stabilisation. People and Place, Vol. 4, No. 1,
1996. 40-5 pp. Clayton, Australia. In Eng.
"Unemployment [in
Australia] is affected by two factors: increases in the productivity of
labour and increases in its supply. Both of these factors could, in
principle, be offset by strong economic growth. But, if the economy
grows fast enough to accommodate both productivity gains and the
addition of migrants to the labour force, it will draw in more imports
and the balance of trade will deteriorate. Economic growth of around
two per cent per annum may be all that we can sustain without
increasing our foreign debt. This level of economic growth is not
enough to reduce unemployment in the face of any net immigration (or
any growth in labour productivity)."
Correspondence:
W. Mitchell, University of Newcastle, Department of Economics,
Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:30660 Mitchneck, Beth; Plane, David
A. Migration and the quasi-labor market in Russia.
International Regional Science Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1995. 267-88 pp.
Morgantown, West Virginia. In Eng.
"This paper explores the
twin concepts of labor demand and labor mobility during the Soviet and
post-Soviet periods. The study uses a detailed data set on labor stock,
industrial labor demand, and labor flows for the 1980s in the
Yaroslavl' Oblast, and data on migration and regional labor markets for
all Russian regions in the 1990s. Contextual features, such as the
social contract, full employment, methods of labor allocation, and a
generally low rate of geographic mobility, distinguish the centrally
planned quasi-labor market from the labor market in capitalist
democracies. The findings suggest that net in-migration induces
employment change in the current period rather than in a future period.
The job creation effects appear concurrent with migration during the
Soviet period. In the post-Soviet period, migration and employment
relationships are not predictable based on the same relationships
during the Soviet period."
Correspondence: B.
Mitchneck, University of Arizona, Department of Geography and Regional
Development, Tucson, AZ 85721. Location: Princeton University
Library (UES).
62:30661 Portes, Alejandro; Zhou,
Min. Self-employment and the earnings of immigrants.
American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, Apr 1996. 219-30 pp.
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"We examine the question of the
economic returns to immigrants engaged in self-employment....Based on
samples of four entrepreneurial immigrants plus control samples of
Blacks and Whites from the 1980 [U.S.] Public Use Microdata Sample, we
find large differences in the net effect of self-employment, depending
on the use of a linear (absolute dollar values) or loglinear (relative
returns) form. We examine various explanations for the discrepancy and
identify the role of outliers as significant. The loglinear form fits
the data better, but at the cost of obliterating substantively
important information, namely the preponderance of the self-employed
among positive outliers. Effects of excluding the latter from the
linear form and the theoretical and policy implications of alternative
specifications of the earnings equation are
examined."
Correspondence: A. Portes, Johns Hopkins
University, Department of Sociology, Baltimore, MD 21218. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30662 Puur, Allan. Labour
force participation trends in the Baltic states. In: Demography,
economy and welfare, edited by Christer Lundh. 1995. 321-35 pp. Lund
University Press: Lund, Sweden; Chartwell-Bratt: Bromley, England. In
Eng.
"In this paper an attempt is made to present an overview
of postwar labour force participation trends in the three Baltic states
of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania." Aspects considered include
labor force participation among working-age males and females and among
older workers.
Correspondence: A. Puur, Estonian
Interuniversity Population Research Centre, P.O. Box 3012, 200090
Tallinn, Estonia. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:30663 Sanders, Jimy M.; Nee,
Victor. Immigrant self-employment: the family as social
capital and the value of human capital. American Sociological
Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, Apr 1996. 231-49 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"We examine how self-employment among Asian and Hispanic
immigrants is affected by family composition and human capital/class
resources. Because of collective interests and strong personal ties,
the family facilitates the pooling of labor power and financial
resources. Enterprising immigrants draw on these resources when
establishing and operating small businesses. Our findings also show the
importance of human capital/class resources in accounting for immigrant
self-employment. Although foreign-earned human capital is usually not
highly valued in the host labor market, immigrants successfully use
this human capital to achieve business ownership. Interethnic variation
in personal human capital and family composition accounts for a
substantial portion of the observed interethnic variation in
self-employment....The data are drawn from the 1980 five percent PUMS
for greater New York City and Los
Angeles...."
Correspondence: J. M. Sanders, University
of South Carolina, Department of Sociology, Columbia, SC 29208.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30664 Schultz, Georg V.
Effects of demographic development on unemployment. [Die
Auswirkungen der demographischen Entwicklung auf die Arbeitslosigkeit.]
Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, Vol. 20, No. 4,
1995. 485-96 pp. Wiesbaden, Germany. In Ger. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
"Empirical data for the years 1950 and 1989 indicate that a
major cause of the current high level of unemployment has been the
demographic development in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1975.
This influence is examined in isolation in this article, because of the
dramatic and unprecedented population development that has taken place
during the past twenty years. However, a trend break is also evident in
the mid-1970s for other variables as well. At this point the gap
between the non-productive consumers and the economically actives
begins to widen. If decisive measures are not taken, the age structure
in the former federal territory, which is comparable to that of the EU
as a whole, could lead to continuing high unemployment levels for the
next 40 years."
Correspondence: G. V. Schultz,
Görreshof 78, 53347 Alfter, Germany. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:30665 Schultz, T. Paul. Aging,
immigration and women in the labor force: Japan compared to other OECD
countries. Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper, No. 743, Nov
1995. 76 pp. Yale University, Economic Growth Center: New Haven,
Connecticut. In Eng.
"This paper explores immigration and
alternative sources of growth in the Japanese labor force....The paper
considers how other industrial nations have responded to economic
pressures for immigration from low-income countries, and how developed
and developing countries can contribute to achieve a more equitable
international and intranational distribution of the benefits from
growth, international trade, and growing world factor
mobility."
Correspondence: Yale University, Economic
Growth Center, P.O. Box 208269, 27 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
06520-8269. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30666 Sheppard, Harold L.; Serow, William
J. The older American work force: 1960 to 1990.
Center for the Study of Population Working Paper, No. 96-130, [1996].
21, [59] pp. Florida State University, College of Social Sciences,
Center for the Study of Population: Tallahassee, Florida. In Eng.
"This document reviews and summarizes several features of the
older American work force for the period from 1960 to 1990....Persons
aged 55 or more years who were working or were seeking work declined by
about one-third or by nine percentage points, from 39 to 30 percent.
The decline was entirely due to reductions in labor force attachment by
men, whose participation declined from 57 to 40 percent while the rate
of participation among women remained at 22 percent....It appears that
over time the relative difference in labor force participation rates
according to education...has widened....The occupational mix of older
workers continues to differ somewhat from that of their younger
counterparts....Older persons who have neither pension nor earnings
income are appreciably more likely to be impoverished than those with
either or both of these income sources."
Correspondence:
Florida State University, Center for the Study of Population,
659-C Bellamy Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4063. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30667 Sullivan, Teresa A. The
cashier complex and the changing American labor force. In:
Demographic and structural change: the effects of the 1980s on American
society, edited by Dennis L. Peck and J. Selwyn Hollingsworth. 1996.
127-41 pp. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut. In Eng.
The
concept of "the `cashier complex'--the tendency for labor force
growth to be concentrated in a set of middle-level jobs that share some
of the same characteristics as those of cashiers--is employed in this
analysis. It is useful in understanding the types of employment that
are projected to create the greatest number of new jobs in the American
labor force during the 1990s....The cashier complex enhances the
understanding of those labor force changes that are influenced by a
continuing shift into a service market, substitution of capital for
labor, the lessening of skill requirements for workers, and the
shifting proportion of demographic groups among entry-level
workers....The author examines the changes in labor demand that led to
the cashier complex, characteristics of the cashier complex jobs, the
effect of technology on these jobs, and the demographic implications of
such change."
Correspondence: T. A. Sullivan,
University of Texas, Department of Sociology, Austin, TX 78712.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:30668 Zhao, Min. A study on
immigrant labor in some enterprises in Shanghai. Chinese Journal
of Population Science, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1995. 379-88 pp. New York, New
York. In Eng.
"This article conducts analyses of the
demographic characteristics, working conditions, and welfare of the
immigrant laborers currently employed in some of the enterprises in
Shanghai [China], based on survey data collected on the immigrant
population at the end of 1993 and a sample survey in five enterprises
in Shanghai. The article also makes suggestions for the future
management and utilization of immigrant labor in
Shanghai."
Correspondence: M. Zhao, Shanghai Academy
of Social Sciences, Population and Development Research Institute,
Shanghai, China. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).