[PDF] Top 20 Adaptação às alterações climáticas no âmbito da avaliação de impacte ambiental

... Vaupel (2003) used simulations and empirical reasoning to investigate for some specific cases the impact of redundancy, repair capacity, and heterogeneity on the relative length of pos[r] ... See full document

... (10-13, 14-17 and 10-17) and estimate bivariate probit models for each group using similar sets of covariates and instruments that were used in the main ... See full document

... Standard economic theories of migration usually assume that migrants are positively selected in terms of ability and productivity (e.g., Chiswick 1978; Sjaastad 1962). Potential migrants make cost-benefit calculations of ... See full document

... This article focuses on level-1 vs. level-2 explanations. We present a new method for decomposing change in a population average into two components, one capturing the ef- fect of direct change and the other ... See full document

... Instead of referring to age and time as continuous variables, let’s consider age and time intervals or categories, all of the same width. For instance, all individuals with ages between 0 and 1 are assigned to the age ... See full document

... During recent decades, there has been a rapid educational expansion in all Nordic countries, and the proportions of women with more than compulsory education (i.e., more than primary or lower secondary education) has ... See full document

... Education influences fertility also indirectly. Assuming that highly educated women have their first child later in life than their counterparts with lower qualifications (Blossfeld and Huinink, 1989, 1991), one can ... See full document

... We conclude our presentation with a crude summary of the fractions of time that respondents’ children spent in various family types (Table 8). These percentages have simply been calculated from the family states that ... See full document

... We have applied both approaches to estimate life expectancy at the age that begins the open-ended interval. We select that age to be the lowest integer age above which fewer than 2% of recorded deaths occur. The Gompertz ... See full document

... frequency of marriages involving the ‘legitimisation’ of children can be illustrated by the example of France, where the proportion of marriages of couples with child(ren) increased rapidly during the 1980s and the ... See full document

... We incorporate recent developments in the continuous measurement of birth outcomes as advocated by Solis et al. (2000) and others (e.g., Wilcox and Skjœrven 1992), in which birth outcomes are measured as deviations from ... See full document

... Algorithm for decomposition of differences between aggregate demographic measures and its application to life expectancies, healthy life expectancies, parity-progression ratios and.. tot[r] ... See full document

... The GGP addresses the individual, partnership, and household levels of analysis through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), where individual respondents are in[r] ... See full document

... Net to the characteristics of the women, the higher education level of the father has a negative effect on marriage and a positive impact on cohabitation; the effect is stronger in centr[r] ... See full document

... this article is to investigate whether the size of the family of orientation was indeed associated with the upward or downward mobility chances of adult children in a historical population undergoing the ... See full document

... a 14-year follow-up period in the CPS-II study increased estimates of relative mortality risk for smokers by 8% to 28%, compared to continuing use of smoking status as reported at ... See full document

... The daily total numbers of deaths, as well as the number of deaths in selected age groups and social classes, were related to the daily average temperatures using regression models for[r] ... See full document

... This operationalises the concept of declining data quality: respondent or interviewer fatigue can introduce a declining probability of responding positively to the reason for nonuse, whi[r] ... See full document

... In this paper we conducted an econometric exploration of the factors associated with new asylum applications and growing refugee stocks in and outside Europe by u[r] ... See full document

... The probability of parents with shared custody moving beyond the county borders is low (less than 5% for fathers and less than 10% for mothers), while this may happen more frequently wit[r] ... See full document