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.
General studies on the relations between population factors and economic development in developing countries. Includes studies on dependency as they relate to developing countries.
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.
Studies on the environment, quality of life, conservation, food production, etc., and their interrelations with population factors.
66:10058 McConnell, R. A.
Population, environment, globalization and the survival of
civilization. Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, Winter 1999.
155-78 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This is a general review of two
studies that form part of the so-called scientific doomsday literature,
which predict that civilization will collapse under the combined
pressure of overpopulation and environmental pollution. The two studies
are: Is the end nigh?: international global chaos and the destruction
of the earth, by Lyons, Moore, and Smith; and Population politics: the
choices that shape our future, by Virginia
Abernethy.
Correspondence: R. A. McConnell, University of
Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences, 4200 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-0001. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
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.
66:10059 Clark, Robert L.; York, E. Anne;
Anker, Richard. Economic development and labor force
participation of older persons. Population Research and Policy
Review, Vol. 18, No. 5, Oct 1999. 411-32 pp. Dordrecht, Netherlands. In
Eng.
"The effect of economic development on labor force
participation rates of older men and women is examined using national
data for 134 countries.... The analysis indicates a negative
relationship between per capita income and labor force participation
rates. This relationship is stronger for older men than for older women
and is most apparent among middle income countries.... Industrial
changes such as a decline in the proportion of the labor force employed
in agriculture lower the proportion of older persons in the labor
force. Finally, national social security policies are shown to impact
the proportion of older persons that remains in the labor
force."
Correspondence: R. L. Clark, North Carolina
State University, College of Management, Box 7229, Raleigh, NC 27695.
E-mail: robert_clark@ncsu.edu. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
66:10060 Nagase, Nobuko. The
public pension and the labor supply of older women in Japan.
Review of Population and Social Policy, No. 8, 1999. 27-48 pp. Tokyo,
Japan. In Eng.
"This paper, while describing the revised
Japanese public pension scheme for housewives and showing the actual
receipt of public pensions by women according to occupational group,
empirically estimates the effect of the public pension on labor supply
and home production activities of older women. Data are drawn from two
sets of [a] national sample of females aged 55-69 surveyed in 1983 and
1992, when a decline in extended families, an increase in older
couples, and a rise in the general pension level was observed. As the
pension receipt increased a large retirement effect and an increase in
housekeeping activities was estimated for females with formal paid work
experience, while a slight rise in leisure activities was estimated for
housewives."
Correspondence: N. Nagase, Ochanomizu
University, 1-1 Naka 1-chome, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
