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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369100
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Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756232
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Immigration Policies and their Impact: The Case of New Zealand and Australia
Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the contribution of external migration to population growth. Next,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703805
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Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects
Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (“strong scale effect”) or the level of per capita income (“weak scale effect”), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763914
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Income and Population Growth
Brückner, Markus; Schwandt, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960-2007 we interact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665152
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The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields utility through its status. The decline in mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788725
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216756
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529151
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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
Giles, John T.; Mu, Ren - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the probability that a reallocation of land will occur in the following year. After first demonstrating that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078392
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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766379