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Borjas, George J. - 1994

Natives benefit from immigration mainly because of production complementarities between immigrant workers and other factors of production, and these benefits are larger when immigrants are sufficiently `different' from the stock of native productive inputs. The available evidence suggests that...

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A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...

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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain, and the UK

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...

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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006

The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of increased longevity and a reduced birth rate will directly reduce the growth rates of the European economies by slowing the growth of the capital stock and by weakening the productivity...

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Demographic Changes and International Factor Mobility

Helliwell, John F. - 2004

This paper reviews the extent and policy implications of linkages between demographic changes and international factor mobility. Evidence is found of significant demographic effects on both migration and the current account, but for different reasons neither increased migration nor international...

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The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World's Demographic Transition

Fehr, Hans - 2004

This paper and its companion study, Fehr, Jokisch, and Kotlikoff (2004), develop a three-region dynamic general equilibrium life-cycle model to analyze general and skill-specific immigration policy during the demographic transition. The three regions are the U.S., Japan, and the EU. Immigration...

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Growth, Distribution and Demography : Some Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1997

If we have learned anything from the recent outpouring of empirical growth equations is that life is far too complex to expect unconditional' convergence among all countries and at" all times. This fact motivates two questions. First, why has it taken economists so long to learn" the same lesson...

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The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence

Reck, Daniel; Seibold, Arthur - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Empirical evidence suggests that individuals often evaluate options relative to a reference point, especially seeking to avoid losses. We undertake the first welfare analysis under reference-dependent preferences. We characterize the welfare impact of changes in reference points and prices,...

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The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System : A Proposal for a Partial Transition to a Funded System

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1997

endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions" of this member. In Germany, this is an amount of about DM 175 …

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The Impact of Health and Education on Labor Force Participation in Aging Societies – Projections for the United States and Germany from a Dynamic Microsimulation

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections …Both the US and Germany are expected to undergo demographic aging, but their demographic fundamentals differ starkly … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …

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