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Saving, dependency and development
Schmidt, Robert M.; Kelley, Allen C. - In: Journal of Population Economics 9 (1996) 4, pp. 365-386
The widely-observed finding in the literature showing little or no relationship between population growth (and …
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Migration as a source of growth: The perspective of a developing country
Santos, Manon Domingues Dos; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 1, pp. 161-175
This paper analyses the dynamics of migratory flows and growth in a developing economy. We show that when workers freely choose their location, some natives can rationally decide to return to their home country after they have accumulated a certain amount of knowledge abroad, while some prefer...
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The effects of development on migration: Theoretical issues and new empirical evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 3, pp. 485-508
relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been put forth which hint at the … possibility that in the early stages of development economic progress might lead to more migration, even if income differentials … migration to Germany from 86 Asian and African countries from 1981 to 1995. The results confirm the importance of financial …
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The welfare economics of immigration control
Levine, Paul - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 1, pp. 23-43
laissez-faire migration equilibrium based on explicit calculations of potential migrants without immigration controls in the … West, with the socially optimal level of migration. The paper examines the issue of immigration control by developing a …This paper develops a Harris-Todaro (HT) type model of East-West migration in which labour market imperfections prevent …
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On the contribution of sectoral natural population growth to the aggregate poverty change
Chatti, Rim; Lahga, AbdelRahman El - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 1, pp. 183-190
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Is a significant socio-economic structural change a pre-requisite for `initial' fertility decline in the LDCs? Evidence from Thailand based on a multivariate cointegration/vector e...
Masih, Abul M. M.; Masih, Rumi - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 3, pp. 463-487
This study is the first attempt at placing the analysis of fertility in a temporal dynamic framework in the case of a developing Asian economy such as Thailand by binding the relationship between fertility and its determinants within a cointegrated system. The analysis is based on the...
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Comparative labor market performance of visaed and non-visaed migrants: Pacific islanders in Sydney
Brown, Richard P. C. - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 3, pp. 395-411
complementarities between host country immigration policies and foreign aid programs. …
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The effect of housing on migrations in Israel: 1988-1994
Portnov, Boris A. - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 3, pp. 379-394
The analysis of 1988-1994 statistical data indicates that the population of Israel simultaneously moves in two opposite … existing population of these areas tends to move outward, to the less populated districts where housing is more available and … affordable. The paper thus argues that the heterogeneity of the population is indeed a crucial consideration for the proper …
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Are children repaying parental loans? Evidence from Malaysia using matched child-parent pairs
Park, Cheolsung - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 2, pp. 243-263
This paper tests whether interhousehold transfers from children to parents in developing countries are motivated by altruism or intended to be repayments of implicit parental loans taken up by children for human capital investment. For the test, a sample of child-parent pairs is constructed by...
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Population policy: Authoritarianism versus cooperation
Sen, Amartya - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 1, pp. 3-22
The people whose interests are most adversely affected by frequent bearing and rearing of children are young women. Social changes that expand the decisional power of young women (such as expansion of female literacy, or enhancement of female employment opportunity) can, thus, be major forces in...
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