Martin Brockerhoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 801023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Brockerhoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Brockerhoff |
| SIGNATURE | BROCKERHOFF M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Population Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cultural impact of human resource practices on job satisfaction: A global study across 48 countries
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of high-performance human resource practices on job satisfaction across four cultural regions – Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America. High-performance human resource practices were used to predict job satisfaction for each region and then compared to determine significant differences. Hofstede's cultural dimensions were employed as a basis for structuring hypothesized differ…
The inequality of maternal health care in urban sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s
Numerous studies document the disadvantage in child health of the urban poor in African cities. This study uses Demographic and Health Survey data from 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to examine whether the urban poor experience comparable disadvantages in maternal health care. The results show that, although on average the urban poor receive better antenatal and delivery care than rural residents, the care of the urban poor is worse than that…
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Roderic Beaujot, Earning and Caring in Canadian Families Gareth Dale And Mike Cole (eds.), The European Union and Migrant Labour Andrew Dobson (ed.), Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice Jean Drèze (ed.), The Economics of Famine James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca (eds.), America's Demographic Tapestry: Baseline for the New Millennium Robert D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy…
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Orley Ashenfelter And David Card (Eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3 Paul Boyle, Keith Halfacree, and Vaughan Robinson, Exploring Contemporary Migration Weixing Chen, The Political Economy of Rural Development in China, 1978–1999 David A. Crocker and Toby Linden (Eds.), Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship James Z. Lee and Wang Feng, One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Myt…
Urban Growth in Developing Countries: A Review of Projections and Predictions
Comparison of the United Nations' earliest and most recent projections to the year 2000 suggests that urban and city growth in developing regions has occurred much more slowly than was anticipated as recently as 1980. A modified “urban population explosion” in developing countries since the 1970s conforms to explanatory models of urban growth developed by economists around 1980. Trends in productivity and terms of trade, in particular, have been …
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: American Economic Association , Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, New York, January 3–5 1999 Katherine Betts , The Great Divide: Immigration Politics in Australia C. Y. Cyrus Chu , Population Dynamics: A New Economic Approach Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson , The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact International Federati…
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor Ester Boserup, My Professional Life and Publications 1929–1998 Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Tekxu, and Patrick Webb, Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention John Brotchie, Peter Newton, Peter Hall, and John Dickey (eds.), East West Perspectives on 21st Century Urban Development: Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium Alex d…
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Chris Beyrer, War in the Blood: Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia Caroline H. Bledsoe et al. (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World Donald J. Hernandez and Evan Charney (eds)., From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well‐Being of Children in Immigrant Families Nana Poku and David T. Graham (eds.), Redefining Security: Population Movements and National Security…
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
The association of migration with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented, yet the social and behavioral mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. Using data from the 1993 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, this article examines whether migrants are more likely than nonmigrants to have multiple recent sexual partners and not use condoms with those partners. Results indicate that migration is a critical factor in hi…
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World: The Shanty Towns of Buenos Aires
The Tribal Basis of American Life: Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Groups in Conflict
The Poverty of Cities in Developing Regions
A LONG-STANDING BELIEF in development studies holds that, on the whole, living conditions in developing countries are superior for residents of large cities than for persons living in smaller cities, towns, and villages. The concept of big cities as “islands of privilege ” (Harrison 1982: 145) is fundamental to otherwise discrepant theories of modernization, dependency, world systems of cities, and the global division of labor, each of which posi…
Keys to Successful Immigration: Implications of the New Jersey Experience
Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America's Immigration Tradition
Paul Smith, the editor of Human Smuggling, asserts that global organized crime and illegal immigration are two transnational issues that have reached the highest levels of policy concern in the United States, and that human smuggling is the main phenomenon wherein these two issues are encompassed. While Mexico and other countries of Latin America have received most attention with respect to these issues, the authors of this collection of essays m…
World Urbanization Prospects: The 1996 Revision
Understanding Impoverishment: The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement
Urbanization in Large Developing Countries: China, Indonesia, Brazil, and India
The State of the World's Children 1998
The State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda
Economics and European Union Migration Policy
The Mega-City in Latin America
Mexico Megacity
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
The State of the World's Children 1997
World Urbanization Prospects: The 1996 Revision
The Poverty of Cities in Developing Regions
A LONG-STANDING BELIEF in development studies holds that, on the whole, living conditions in developing countries are superior for residents of large cities than for persons living in smaller cities, towns, and villages. The concept of big cities as “islands of privilege ” (Harrison 1982: 145) is fundamental to otherwise discrepant theories of modernization, dependency, world systems of cities, and the global division of labor, each of which posi…
Child survival in big cities: The disadvantages of migrants
Rural-to-Urban migration and child survival in Senegal
Analysis of the 1986 Senegal Demographic and Health Survey reveals that mothers may be able to improve their children’s survival chances by migrating from the countryside to the city. Children of urban migrants, however, continue to experience a much higher risk of mortality before the age of 5 than children of urban nonmigrants, even after the mother has lived in the city for several years. This migrant mortality disadvantage persists when contr…
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
Migration, Sexual Behavior and the Risk of HIV in Kenya
The association of migration with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented, yet the social and behavioral mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. Using data from the 1993 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, this article examines whether migrants are more likely than nonmigrants to have multiple recent sexual partners and not use condoms with those partners. Results indicate that migration is a critical factor in hi…
The inequality of maternal health care in urban sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s
Numerous studies document the disadvantage in child health of the urban poor in African cities. This study uses Demographic and Health Survey data from 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to examine whether the urban poor experience comparable disadvantages in maternal health care. The results show that, although on average the urban poor receive better antenatal and delivery care than rural residents, the care of the urban poor is worse than that…
Child survival in East Africa: The impact of preventive health care
Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Female Rural to Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Martin Brockerhoff, Hongsook Eu, Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Female Rural to Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa, The International Migration Review, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 557-577
Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Female Rural to Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Data from eight recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in sub-Saharan Africa are used to assess whether fertility, child mortality and other individual-level characteristics motivate or constrain long-term female migration from rural to urban and other rural areas. Findings indicate that the likelihood of rural-urban and rural-rural migration is lowered in most countries when the woman has had two or more recent births, but not when she has …
Impact of migration on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
Much lower levels of fertility in urban than rural areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa imply that fertility decline in the region may be facilitated by rapid urbanization and rural-to-urban migration. The present study uses data from Demographic and Health Surveys in six countries--Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Togo and Uganda--to assess the impact of long-term rural-urban female migration on fertility. Results of logit analyses indicate that in m…
The State of the World's Children 1998
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
The Challenge of Urbanization: The World's Large Cities
Rural-to-Urban migration and child survival in Senegal
Analysis of the 1986 Senegal Demographic and Health Survey reveals that mothers may be able to improve their children’s survival chances by migrating from the countryside to the city. Children of urban migrants, however, continue to experience a much higher risk of mortality before the age of 5 than children of urban nonmigrants, even after the mother has lived in the city for several years. This migrant mortality disadvantage persists when contr…
Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Female Rural to Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Martin Brockerhoff, Hongsook Eu, Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Female Rural to Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa, The International Migration Review, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 557-577
Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Female Rural to Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Data from eight recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in sub-Saharan Africa are used to assess whether fertility, child mortality and other individual-level characteristics motivate or constrain long-term female migration from rural to urban and other rural areas. Findings indicate that the likelihood of rural-urban and rural-rural migration is lowered in most countries when the woman has had two or more recent births, but not when she has …
The State of the World's Children 1993
Peaceful Invasions: Immigration and Changing America
Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanization in the Third World
Impact of migration on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
Much lower levels of fertility in urban than rural areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa imply that fertility decline in the region may be facilitated by rapid urbanization and rural-to-urban migration. The present study uses data from Demographic and Health Surveys in six countries--Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Togo and Uganda--to assess the impact of long-term rural-urban female migration on fertility. Results of logit analyses indicate that in m…
Educating All the Children: Strategies for Primary Schooling in the South
Population Growth, Employment and Poverty in Third-World Mega-Cities: Analytical and Policy Issues
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
Urban Children in Distress: Global Predicaments and Innovative Strategies
Internal Migration of Women in Developing Countries
Fertility and family planning in African cities: The impact of female migration
This study uses data from thirteen Demographic and Health Surveys to examine effects of female migration on fertility in African cities. Contrary to expectations, migration from villages and towns in the 1980s and 1990s reduced total fertility rates in African cities by about one birth, from an estimated average of 5·55 in the absence of migration to 4·59. New arrivals experience much lower fertility in their first few years in cities than long t…
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa: Urbanization in an Era of Structural Adjustment
Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective
Child survival in big cities: The disadvantages of migrants
The Labour Market in Africa
An America Challenged: Population Change and the Future of the United States
Child survival in East Africa: The impact of preventive health care
Fertility and Family Planning in African Cities: The Impact of Female Migration
This study uses data from thirteen Demographic and Health Surveys to examine effects of female migration on fertility in African cities. Contrary to expectations, migration from villages and towns in the 1980s and 1990s reduced total fertility rates in African cities by about one birth, from an estimated average of 5.55 in the absence of migration to 4.59. New arrivals experience much lower fertility in their first few years in cities than long t…
Children in the International Political Economy
List of Tables and Figures - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - PART 1: FRAMEWORK AND SETTING - Responsibility - The Global Economy - PART 2: CHILDREN'S PROBLEMS - Mortality - Child Labour - Child Prostitution - Armed Conflict - Malnutrition - PART 3: THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE - Nutrition Rights - Children's Rights - International Children's Rights - Selected References - Appendix: Data on Children - Index
The State of World Population 1996
The Challenge of Urbanization: The World's Large Cities
The State of the World's Children 1996
In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Concerns about population growth in sub-Saharan Africa have led to a research emphasis on womens fertility to the neglect of other womens health issues. This report adopts a biomedical approach to female morbidity and mortality throughout the life span with emphasis on strategic points of vulnerability and the complex interplay of disease determinants manifestations and sequelae. The bulk of the report presents evidence regarding eight specific c…
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