| 书目名称 | Population Change and the Economy: Social Science Theories and Models | | 编辑 | Andrew M. Isserman (Director of the Regional Resea | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Population change and population forecasts are receiving considerable attention from governmental planners and policy-makers, as well as from the private sector. Old patterns of population redistribution, industrial location, labor-force participation, household formation, and fertility are changing. The resulting uncertainty has increased interest in forecasting because mere extrapolations of past trends are proving inadequate. In the United States of America popUlation forecasts received even more attention after federal agencies began distributing funds for capital infrastructure to state and local governments on the basis of projected future populations. If the national government had based those funding decisions on locally prepared projections, the optimism of local officials would have resulted in billions of dollars worth of excess capacity in sewage treatment plants alone. Cabinet-level inquiries concluded that the U. S. Department of Commerce should (1) assume the responsibility for developing a single set of projections for use whenever future population was a consideration in federal spending decisions and (2) develop methods which incorporate both economic and demograp | | 出版日期 | Book 1986 | | 关键词 | economy; fertility; foundation; migration; population | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4980-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-8704-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-4980-5 | | copyright | Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing 1986 |
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