All ebooks in the collection "Population Economics" - Springer

Loneliness in Europe

Béatrice D'hombres , Caterina Mauri , Sylke V. Schnepf

This open-access volume accompanies the microdata release of the EU Loneliness Survey. Loneliness, often referred to as the ‘epidemic of the 21st century’, has emerged as a grave public health concern. For years, a lack of comprehensive European cross-national data...

The Economics of Family Taxation

Alessandro Balestrino

This book reflects the reality of most taxpayers. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of optimal tax issues from a household economics perspective. A unified and integrated approach is employed to analyze optimal taxation in a homogeneous way.The...

Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam

Amy Y. C. Liu , Xin Meng

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam. It addresses a wide range of important topics, including Vietnam’s household registration system (ho khau), migration trends, remittance behaviour and social networking. In...

Population Aging, Fertility and Social Security

Akira Yakita

This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. It addresses the most important problems caused by demographic changes using the popular overlapping generations growth model by Samuelson and Diamond. Taking into...

Understanding Demographic Transitions

Claude Diebolt , Faustine Perrin

This book studies the process of demographic transition which has played a key role in the economic development of Western countries. The special focus is on France, which constitutes the first clear case of fertility decline in Europe. The book analyzes the reasons...

The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows

Andrés Artal-Tur , Giovanni Peri , Francisco Requena-Silvente

Though globalisation of the world economy is currently a powerful force, people’s international mobility appears to still be very limited. The goal of this book is to improve our knowledge of the true effects of migration flows. It includes contributions by prominent...

Social Security, Demographics, and Risk

Christoph Hendrik Borgmann