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population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with …
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acquired by the representative organism in the short term determines the positive or negative population growth. Moving short …-run equilibria constitute the dynamics of the predator-prey relations that are characterized in numerical analysis. The population …
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The population literature in theoretical economics has long focused on attempts to avoid the repugnant conclusion. We … advance the literature by proving that no social ordering in population economics can escape the repugnant conclusion in all …
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demand deficiency, this paper examines the relationship between the two countries' relative population size and their … specialization patterns, employment and consumption. When the countries have similar population sizes, they specialize in respective … commodities with comparative advantage. In this case a larger foreign, or a smaller home, population raises the relative price of …
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We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...
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In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
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This paper provides a mathematical foundation for independent random matching of a large population, as widely used in … is an almost-sure constant cross-sectional distribution of types in a large population, and moreover that the multi …
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This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...
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Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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