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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262391
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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility influenced by the implementation of population control policies are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291447
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On the dynamics of ethnic fractionalization
Campos, Nauro F.; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - 2007
Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989 to 2002. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268366
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HIV and fertility in Africa: first evidence from population based surveys
Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Özcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - 2009
The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274407
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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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Immigrant Supply of Marketable Child Care and Native Fertility in Italy
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021
The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting … by immigrant women has positively affected native fertility. …
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Population Aging and Migration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
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/10012597535
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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives
Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on …. In France of 2000, there remains a significant gap between policy goals and outcomes, indicating that integration through … market. Lastly, there is substantial need for further studies on immigrants in France. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763913
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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494317
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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives
Constant, Amelie F. - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on …. In France of 2000, there remains a significant gap between policy goals and outcomes, indicating that integration through … market. Lastly, there is substantial need for further studies on immigrants in France. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272290