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at a fixed wage-income level because population growth tends to outstrip real output growth. Dynamic equilibrium with … constant income and population is achieved through equilibrating adjustments in "positive checks" (mortality, starvation) and … economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus, but also for …
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Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...
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reduction in the size of the Jewish population from about 4.5 million to 1.2 million. Second, the Jewish farmers who invested in …
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investigates, quantitatively, its effect on the westward movement of population and the regional and secular changes in fertility …
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Today's labour-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this...
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The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) social security systems isn't just financial. This study indicates that these systems may have exerted adverse effects on key demographic factors, private savings, and long-term growth rates. Through a comprehensive endogenous-growth model where...
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China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature on its consequences focuses mostly on negative aspects such as crime. In this paper, we provide evidence that the imbalance may also stimulate economic growth by inducing more...
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in OECD countries, some of which already face the prospect of population decline as well. While the trend is largely the …
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-age population growing at a much faster pace than its dependent population during the period 1965-1990, thereby expanding the per … created by the transition. The empirical analyses indicate that population growth has a purely transitional effect on economic …
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development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations are linked via …
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