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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
Mountford, Andrew - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050612
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086663
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148352
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility : A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316935
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072168
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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space
Delventhal, Matt; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Guner, … - 2022
The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076463
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159658
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The Demographic Transition : Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110845
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Unemployment and Productivity Growth : An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Pannenberg, Markus; Bräuninger, Michael - 2021
unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321303
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001874