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fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …
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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. …
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distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
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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 …
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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 …
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1930, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades …We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest … themselves became French citizens achieved lower fertility, particularly those who moved to French regions with the lowest …
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Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …
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France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel … migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
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We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …
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