GLENN R. CARROLL and MICHAEL T. HANNAN, The Demography of Corporations and Industries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp.vii + 490. H/back ISBN 0 6910103 0 7, [pound]31). Carroll and Hannan set out to describe the subject of corporate demography, making clear the...
This paper examines the dynamic relation between firm demography and aggregate productivity firm in Sweden during the period 1997-2003. By using enterprise demography data, the interaction between micro dynamics and aggregate productivity growth is discerned. The result of the decomposition shows that the contribution of entry and exit of firms...
This paper discusses the contribution that demographers can make to the study of disadvantage. Demographers from Malthus onwards have been interested in analysing disadvantage through the lens of demographic variables, notably fertility, mortality and population growth, and their effect on poverty and welfare, both at an aggregate level and in...
Reviewer: A. Hoque Sharif, ASA, University of Waterloo, OntarioDemography--the statistical and mathematical study of human population--is now widely taught in social science, bio-science, and in bio-statistics. But the subject is no longer restricted to social science. The techniques of mathematic demography are now widely used by demographers, epidemiologists, actuaries, economists,...
Oct 01, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Complex issues of demography and population are being discussed in Australia. Gavin Jones is a key speaker at a conference at the University of New South Wales. Jones, a demography professor from Canberra, will look...
The creation of new businesses and the decline of unproductive ones are often regarded key to business dynamism in OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) economies. Business churn (i.e. entry plus exit rates) is commonly viewed as a measure of the ability of economies to expand the boundaries of...
There is, fittingly, something for everyone in People and Programmes. The document is adorned with statements of principle, but the first, the epigraph to the whole document, is this: "The BBC was founded to bring audiences and creative talent together. We are bound to be judged by how effectively...
Long before I took a professional interest in demography I had noticed a puzzle in the history of my family. Why was it that my wife Sidney and I, born in the 1930s, had seven children one of whom died while the families of my father and mother, serious Catholics...
Byline: Andrew Heathcote Jun 07, 2006 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Owning and operating a vineyard is a romantic but unrealistic vision for most Australians. Adelaide accounting firm Fennell, Allen & Company knows the benefits and the pitfalls. It has many clients...
Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries, aims to reinvent his petrochemical giant as a retail powerhouse, catering to India's booming consumer class. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Sudip Mazumdar and Ron Moreau about India, Reliance, and the family feud that recently broke the conglomerate apart. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: You say...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1994, Rudolph Giuliani assumed duties as the mayor of New York, taking over a city with one of the highest crime rates in America--a problem he promised to address. To meet this challenge, he expanded the number of police officers on his force, surged them to...
ABSTRACT THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES SELECTED ECONOMIC and social indicators of our multiracial and multiethnic society at the end of the twentieth century to provide an information base for wise decisions about effective library services. The statistical profile describes the demography, economic well-being, and educational attainment of the principal racial...
DEMOGRAPHY is destiny in American politics. This point was made brilliantly almost exactly thirty years ago, by Kevin Phillips in The Emerging Republican Majority (1968). In the shadow of the Democrats' long-dominant "Roosevelt coalition," and amid the wreckage and recrimination of the disastrous Goldwater defeat, Phillips boldly predicted a generation...
PARIS AFP — Earth contains nearly 6.5 billion inhabitants, more than half of them living in just six countries, according to a report from the French Institute for Demographic Studies IFED. Of every 100 people in the world, 61 live in Asia, 14 in Africa, 11 in Europe, nine...
Myron Weiner, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, the nation's leading authority on Indian political studies and a specialist in the fields of political development, political demography, migration, ethnic conflict, and child labor, died in his Vermont home on June 3, 1999, of a...
PORT BLAIR, India AFP — A surge in job-seekers sailing to the Andamans for a slice of the post-tsunami aid pie could alter the archipelago's demography and further squeeze its indigenous peoples, experts warn. Environmentalists are also urging large relief agencies to pack up and leave the palm-fringed Andamans,...
Laurian Unnevehr grew up in suburban northern California and majored in Economics at the University of California at Davis. Like many agricultural economists of her generation, the food price increases and rapid population growth in the 1970s caught her attention, and drew her to the study of food and population....
William P. Herron, 76, an expert in demography who helped shape the Philadelphia School District's desegregation policy during the 1960s and 1970s, died of lung failure Thursday at Bryn Mawr Terrace Nursing Home. He was a longtime resident of Havertown. After graduating from Turtle Creek High School near Pittsburgh...
What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science, edited by Richard N. Cooper and Richard Layard. MIT Press. 2002. 285 pages. Available from the Futurist Bookstore for $29.95 ($26.95 for Society members), cat. no. B-417. What the Future Holds, edited by economists, is a collection of essays on...
