Peak-Konsum -- Die Auswirkungen von Bevölkerungsschrumpfung und -alterung auf das Rentenversicherungssystem in Deutschland -- Was taugen die Vorhersagen? Regionale Unterschiede in der demografischen Entwicklung, Ursachen und Zukunftsprognosen -- Die Generationenökonomie -- Auswirkungen des...

Education: No Take Off Without Adult Literacy -- Electricity: Power to the People -- Sex and Money: How Many Babies Are Too Many? -- Debt: A Debt Crisis Is Probably Unavoidable in a Bid to Create Jobs -- Demographics and Growth: Who Booms, When? -- What the Future Holds: Democracy, Corruption,...

1. Conceptualisations and Measurement -- 2. Theories and Empirical Findings -- 3. Happiness and Policy -- 4. Inequality -- 5. Poverty, Deprivation and Social Class -- 6. Some Questions of Intergenerational Economics -- 7. Ageing, House Prices, and Economic Crises -- 8. Behavioural Economics and...

Introduction -- Land Use Planning and the Sustainability Challenges -- The Nigerian Property Market Situation -- Negative Externalities and Social Exclusion in the City -- Housing Choice -- Modeling Choices with a Negative Externalities -- The Implication on Tenants’ Choice and Property Market...

1. Introduction: Characterizing Family-Owned Enterprises and Assessing Them Concerning Criteria Such as Family Involvement, Size, Age, Longevity, Independence and Vitality -- 2. Structure and Age of German Family Enterprises -- 3. Development of the 500 Biggest Family Enterprises since...

1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview of Pandemics -- 3 The Spanish Flu in the News -- 4 Unequal Mortality during the Spanish Flu -- 5 The Spanish Flu and the Labor Market -- 6 The Spanish Flu and the Housing Market -- 7 Taking Stock: The Aggregate Effects of the Spanish Flu.

The monograph demonstrates the widespread existence of differences in life span by month of birth in the elderly populations of contemporary societies. It provides evidence that the pattern is linked to the seasons of the year, by comparing the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere. It formulates...

Chapter 1. Introduction — Trends, Puzzles and Hopes for the Future of Healthcare -- Chapter 2. Innovations in Psychiatric Care Models: Lessons from the Past to Inform the Future -- Chapter 3. Mobile Sensors in Healthcare: Technical, Ethical, and Medical Aspects -- Chapter 4. New Horizons in...

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in economics, health...

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in economics, health...