Published in Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners
Humans are vulnerable to poverty in many ways, especially women. Poor people do not necessarily benefit from the way markets are managed, and women are experiencing particular barriers in making their independent living, such as low salary and access to fewer assets. In view of the above, Oxfam recognizes that in order for poor men and women to ach...
Published in World of work : the magazine of the ILO
Far from reducing international migration flows, globalization will give rise to increased migration pressures in the years to come. It is noted in the book "Workers without Frontiers: The impact of globalization on international migration" that the total number of migrants worldwide have surpassed 120 million and is growing. It argues that flows o...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
This study analyzed the strength of influence upon statural variation, such as: 1) the degree of urbanization of the locality of habitat; 2) family size; 3) paternal education; and 4) maternal educational status. Data was collected in the course of three medical and sociological surveys of 19-year-old Polish conscripts examined in 1965, 1986, and 1...
Published in International migration (Geneva, Switzerland)
"This article describes the formation and characteristics of the new evolving community of illegal Latin American foreign workers in Jerusalem while adopting the ecological perspective, which examines human development and behaviour in various contexts of their social and cultural environments. We have looked specifically at illegal Latin American ...
Published in The history of the family : an international quarterly
"The article analyzes the concept of ¿demographic aging', why ¿age 60' (years) was chosen as a threshold for the start of ¿aging', and how these notions have been applied in France. Since the nineteenth century, tremendous changes have occurred in the meaning of ¿age 60', both in terms of the social and familial roles a person of that age is expect...
Published in Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
"A unified growth theory is developed that accounts for the roughly constant living standards displayed by world economies prior to 1800 as well as the growing living standards exhibited by modern industrial economies. Our theory also explains the industrial revolution, which is the transition from an era when per capita incomes are stagnant to one...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
Upon the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), medical professionals should pay attention to the widening gap between the rich and the poor. The rights outlined in the UDHR include the traditional province of civil and political rights, as well as the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-bei...
Published in Journal of ethnic and migration studies
"Population migrations in Israel simultaneously move in two opposite directions: while the initial distribution of new immigrants is primarily focused on big cities of the country's central core, the existing population of these centres tends to move outward, to small settlements where housing is more readily available. The effect of housing constr...
Published in The International migration review
The authors "argue that national variation in the size of highly trained migration can be explained by interaction and inequality between nations, both reflecting the process of global integration. Guided by this analytical framework, we tested the structural determinants of highly skilled migration to the United States. The evidence confirms our h...
Published in Sociologický časopis
The extent to which the elderly in the Czech Republic are poor is examined. The author concludes that poverty among the retired population is rare, although the standard of living of many of the elderly is quite low, and between 30 and 50 percent of elderly people think of themselves as being poor. The author also examines the relationship between ...
