The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local - labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together with...

Chapter 1. I Dream of Gini: Measures of Population Concentration and Their Application to U.S. Population Distribution -- Chapter 2. Unraveling David Plane’s Tools for Analyzing the Income Impacts of Interregional Migration Flows -- Chapter 3. A Short Exercise to Assess the Effects of Temporal...

Introduction: Current Conditions of Work and Family in Japan -- 1 The Factors of Fertility Decline in Japan -- 2 The Japanese Working Custom and Women’s Employment Participation -- 3 Work and Family in Japan from the Comparative Perspective -- 4 Family Formation and Disparity -- 5 The...

1. Introduction -- 2. China: A Historic Mobilization Ends -- 3. The Great Demographic Reversal and its Effect on Future Growth -- 4. Dependency, Dementia and the Coming Crisis of Caring -- 5. The Likely Resurgence of Inflation -- 6. The Determination of (Real) Interest Rates during the Great...

Chapter 1. Earnings and Employment in Foreign-owned Firms -- Chapter 2. Widening and Deepening Human Capital -- Chapter 3. Foreign vs. German wage differentials in Germany: Does the home country matter -- Chapter 4. Bilingualism in the Labour Market -- Chapter 5. The Contrasting Importance of...

Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily...

The business problem of having inefficient processes, imprecise process analyses and simulations as well as non-transparent artificial neuronal network models can be overcome by an easy-to-use modeling concept. With the aim of developing a flexible and efficient approach to modeling, simulating...

This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: "Modeling counterparty credit...

Chapter 1. Basic concept of epidemic-logistics -- Chapter 2. Epidemic dynamics modeling and analysis -- Chapter 3. Mixed distribution mode for emergency resources in anti-bioterrorism system -- Chapter 4. Epidemic logistics with demand information updating Model I: Medical resource is enough --...

Why and When Should Quantile Regression Be Used?- A Case of Study: Modelling Energy Markets by the Means of Quantile Regression -- Quantile Regression: A Methodological Overview -- Cross-Sectional Quantile Regression -- Time Series Quantile Regression -- Goodness of Fit in Quantile Regression...