Showing 1 - 10 of 701
fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533912
economy would thus be negatively affected. -- migration ; human capital ; fertility ; brain drain ; economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124211
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615817
significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288027
1930, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades … themselves became French citizens achieved lower fertility, particularly those who moved to French regions with the lowest … fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances, consistently with insights from a theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070203
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806017
more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669786
distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235847
growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659511
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374