developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …

Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was … dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per … worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the sources of the convergence? One prime candidate is mass …

payroll tax rates. This paper asks if there is a silver lining in this dark cloud hanging over the developed world … developed world's fiscal problems, macroeconomic feedback effects make matters significantly worse. The simulations also show … that increased immigration does very little to mitigate the fiscal stresses facing the developed world. On the other hand …

late 19th century. The convergence was pronounced as that which we have seen in the post World War Il period. This paper … uses computable general equilibrium models to isolate the sources of that economic convergence by assessing the relative … performance of the two most important economies in the Old World and the New -- Britain and the USA. It turns out that between …

globalization pressures, I find little evidence of earnings convergence for a sample of 75" countries over the 1963-92 period. This …

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice …, largely as a result of the immense international differences in labor productivity that exist in the world today. As an …