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unemployment, low wages, and high population growth. Migration flows decrease in the geographic and cultural distance between the … alleviate challenges arising from population aging. For origin countries, the effects of migration may go either way, depending … fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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fertility model that generates an endogenous demographic transition by means of distinguishing between female and male labor. We … capital stock and the optimal rate of population growth as a single instrument. We also show that neither a Beveridgean …
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carbon emissions accounting for the impacts of fertility on population growth, population age structure, and income per …We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility …
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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
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the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility … three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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We propose an adaptation of Hartwick's investment rule to models with population growth and show that following … dilution effect of population growth, to the value of the depletion of the resource, gross of the capital dilution effect. We … of Hartwick's investment rule where capital gains play a role if population growth is positive. Since capital gains …
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world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log … implications for the design of policies aimed at containing population growth. …
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In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where … income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs …, which combines population and population density, allows deeper insights into these processes. The incorporation of …
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