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Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality

Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect …

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Demographic and economic pressure on emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of "free" migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the highwage OECD leaders, and …

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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development

De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021

While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

; Africa ; Asia …

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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania

Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017

What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...

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Income and population growth

Brückner, Markus; Schwandt, Hannes - 2013

Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960-2007 we interact...

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Land reforms, status and population growth

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...

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Divergence in labour force growth : should wages and prices grow faster in Germany?

Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...

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Fertility, mortality and environmental policy

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2016

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax curbs dirty production, which decreases pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to...

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Population growth and the tragedy of the commons : can trade prevent natural resource and welfare collapse?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024

Many developing countries depend crucially on open-access renewable natural resources (NR). Trade is generally viewed as hurting the long-term health of NR in commodity-exporting countries. I examine whether trade might be beneficial in the case of population growth. Dynamic general equilibrium...

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