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    Population Demographics Anchorage has seen many changes when it has come to their population demographics. Some of the data is hard to understand, especially when looking at the information about race in the city. In 1950 the city was 97 percent white, while lowering to 66 percent in the most recent census (City-Data, 2015). In 1990, the census recorded 6.4% African American, 6.4% Native American, which is up nearly 5 percent from 1970, 4.1 percent Hispanic and 4.8 percent of residents were…

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    Background and Significance The Council Bluffs (IA) Fire Department has a long, rich history of providing quality emergency response services to its citizens. The department was formed on January 5, 1883, by resolution of the city council to establish a full-time, paid department (Petersen, 1992). This resolution came after numerous devastating fires exceeded the capabilities of the several volunteer fire companies that had protected the city during the previous 29 years. In 1918, the…

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    50 years from 1962 to 2012 the birth rate of Australians has decreased from 3.43 babies per woman to 1.89 babies per woman (Gapminder). This societal shift has had a huge impact on population, and therefore has also severely impacted Australia’s economic growth rate. A solution for economies experiencing a loss in population is an increase in immigration. “The purpose of migration is to build the economy, shape society, support the labour market and reunite family” (Border Patrol, 2016). However…

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    In the second chapter of Paul Bernstein’s American Work Values, the author investigates the Demographic and Economic effect on work values in medieval Europe where Luther and his contemporaries offered the European world a contingent endorsement of work, they likewise mounted savage and attacks on the beggars and vagrants that plagued their reality. The fundamental problem was the huge increase in beggary and poverty during the sixteenth century. Moreover, the big effect of this cause was…

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    is surpassing the Baby Boomers and becoming the most prominent generation in America. “The demographic shift is undeniably producing extensive implications regarding social, economic and cultural factors globally. Essentially, the labor market is vastly confronting with the massive influx of digitally perceptive, determined and social job seekers.” (Taylor & Scott, 2010) With such a significant demographic transition, recruiters are going to reexamine their hiring strategies and implement…

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    one. • Cultural impacts • Governmental and political impacts • Demographic and way of life patterns • Local, national, and world financial patterns • The qualities of multi-national contenders • The impact of innovation on physical circulation Type of Market Environment: Market environment is isolated into two sections relying upon the components…

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    Gentrification Theory

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    of the theories are explained by the production-side of it, the consumption-side, and the political-economic side. Gentrification through a production lens explains the process as a consequence of the uneven investment of capital in certain land uses, its devaluation through use and disinvestment, and the opportunities for profitable reinvestment created. They explain gentrification as an economic process that is caused by fluctuating relationships among capital investment and the production of…

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    Economic growth and development are diverse across provinces in Canada. According to the Conference Board of Canada (2013) Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador, all earn “A+” grades for real GDP growth in 2013. However, New Brunswick earns a "C" grade, which is the worst performance among the provinces in Canada. There is also variation in employment and unemployment growth across provinces. These divergences of economic performances across provinces in Canada prompts provincial…

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    expand the business, such as, business policies, weakness of globally economic relationship, the difficulty of transportations, communications between the countries, and Lack of advanced technology. In today’s business, everything changed and the business environment changed too because the world become more dynamic than before and it is changing quickly, due to surrounding and circumstances business enterprise, political, economic, and the most prominent of these changes are globalization and…

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    Positive Economic Impacts Refugees of any country can often bring positive economic impacts to the countries that give them asylum. Existing literature on this topic discusses multiple ways in which these positive impacts can occur; five of which are discussed below. To start with, provisions created and carried out explicitly for refugees can often lead to broader utilization by the host countries population. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Uganda saw an influx of refugees from Kenya,…

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