The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German individuals of the birth cohorts 1966 to 1986. ...

A model is proposed in which women change the timing of childbearing and duration of time not working following childbearing in order to mitigate any adverse effects of the demographic cycle upon their lifetime wages. The authors explore the reduced-form empirical implications of their model and estimate the importance of the responses using data from three cohorts of the National Longitudinal...

In many Western societies, the current 'native' majority will become a numerical minority sometime within next century. How does prospective demographic change affect existing group boundaries? An influential recent article by Abascal (2020) showed that white Americans under threat reacted with boundary contraction—that is, they were less likely to classify ambiguously people as 'white.' The pr...

objective : identification of the risk factors and psychological correlates of prolonged grief disorder is vital for health promotions in relatives of persons who died of cancer. the aim of this research was to investigate the role of defense mechanisms, character dimension of personality and demographic factors on complicated grief following a loss of a family member to cancer. method : a numb...

introduction: the goal of professional librarians and informatics is providing useful services for users. this study aims to recognize the rate of commitment and authority of librarians to ethics instruction. method: this study is an applied ex post facto research. the population of study includes all librarians of isfahan public libraries in 2012. by in access selection, 207 questionnaires wer...

Drift and migration disequilibrium are very common in animal and plant populations. Yet their impact on methods of estimation of demographic parameters was rarely evaluated especially in complex realistic population models. The effect of such disequilibria on the estimation of demographic parameters depends on the population model, the statistics, and the genetic markers used. Here we considere...

this is a discriptive study with the main goal to identify personal, pregnancy and delivery characteristics of mothers given birth to mentally retarded child. this study has been conducted in the rehabilitation center in tehran in 1994. a total of 150 women took part in this research, and the tool of was a check list which was completed by researcher through interview. the findings were illustr...

background and objective: today is the world of organizations, and to improve their performance, productivity and effectiveness, the competent and committed employees are required. several variables including managerial and organizational factors can affect organizational commitment. hence, we aimed to correlate between demographic variables and organizational commitment of the nurses. material...