ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00189.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00190.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This study documents the recent development and expansion of temporary inter‐regional labor migration in central‐west Brazil. Several explanations for the expansion of this movement are investigated, including the financial crises that have affected Brazil's recent social and economic development. Temporary and permanent movement typologies are also examined in an attempt to discern why this region is now characterized by temporary rather than permanent moves. I suggest that permanent moves occurred primarily as a response to structural changes, while temporary movement resulted at least partially because of the country' recent economic crises. Examination of the consequences of this movement (for example, remittance usage) indicates that this temporary migration is more of a survival plan than a mobility strat

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00191.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper examines the effect of social and demographic changes on family income distribution in the largest Colombian cities between 1967 and 1968 and 1984 and 1985, two periods representing the conditions before and after Colombia's sharp fertility decline. The results indicate that urban family income distribution worsened between the two periods, when income shares from the middle‐income groups declined while those received by the richest 10 percent increased and the shares received by the poorest 50 percent were unchanged. A decomposition of the Theil index revealed that the deterioration in urban family income inequality could be traced to groups whose representation in the population increased, namely: households with more educated heads, with working wives, with smaller families, and with fewer childre

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00192.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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In this paper we attempt to overcome several weaknesses of earlier field studies of the effect of international migration on sending communities. In general, these studies fail to employ representative samples of migrants, specify theoretical models of decision‐making, or control for a variety of individual and household characteristics likely to affect how migrants dispose of their earnings, including sample selectivity. Representative samples of Mexican migrants from four sending communities are used to estimate a theoretical model that controls for a variety of individual, family, and trip characteristics; other stages of the analysis also control for sample selectivity. The findings suggest that migrant decision‐making is strongly and consistently determined by social capital and community membership, with other variables playing ancillary roles in different decision processes. The propensities to save, remit, and invest productively generally rose as ties to the United States increased, and were generally higher in communities with well‐developed local econ

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00193.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Using the 1985 Brazilian Annual Household Survey (PNAD), this study analyzes the extent to which the labor force participation of married women influenced familyincome inequality. The marginal impact on family earnings is decomposed into two components, one generated uniquely by differences in earnings inequality between spouses and another produced by imperfect assortive mating on spouses' earnings. Results show that the correlation among spouses' earnings is significantly less than one (0.4), and that the level of earnings inequality is more than 50 percent higher among wives than husbands. Because these forces are offsetting, wives' labor income has a negligible impact on family‐income inequality in Brazil. The results demonstrate the importance of isolating the influence of imperfect assortive mating from that due to inequality in earnings between men and wome

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00194.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This article analyzes age and experience profiles of earnings inequality for U.S. and Brazilian males. Decomposition of the inequality profiles using a standard human capital earnings equation clarifies the determinants of cross‐sectional inequality profiles and demonstrates a number of important differences in the shape of the two countries' profiles and in their underlying components. Most dramatic are Brazil's higher returns to schooling and higher variance in years of schooling, both factors contributing to the significantly higher level of income inequality in Brazil. Changes in the distribution of schooling across cohorts are shown to play a central role in explaining cross‐sectional inequality profiles within each country and differences in earnings inequality in the United States and Bra

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00195.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper explores the linkages between economic cycles and demographic processes in Latin America since 1900. We identify the mechanisms through which economic conditions have an impact on demographic outcomes and assess the demographic and socioeconomic consequences of the 1980s. Selected historical evidence is reviewed to illustrate the effects of economic cycles in Western Europe and, aided by an heuristic framework, tentative hypotheses are derived to interpret empirical evidence about the effects of the 1929 and 1980 depressions in selected Latin American countries. Results show that the demograhic consequences of the Great Depression were nontrivial. The analyses of demographic and socioeconomic responses of the post‐1980 recession, however, reveal only weak linkages for some outcomes. We argue that the weak relationships may mask important transformations currently underway and conclude with a discussion of the implications for future researc

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00196.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology, by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Matthew Adamson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990, 223 pages, $32.50, hardback, $10.95, paperback.Crisis and Change: Basic Questions of Marxist Sociology, by Peter Knapp and Alan J. Spector. Chicago: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1991, 421 pages.Beyond Glasnost: The Post‐Totalitarian Mind, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, 248 pages, $24.95, hardbac

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00197.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1992.tb00198.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY