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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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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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This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
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of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first …
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This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...
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