Germany's turbulent history in the past two centuries has left its mark on her population. The industrialization of the … nineteenth century promoted rapid population growth, and the spatial concentration of that industrialization provoked enormous …'s population through death and other demographic consequences of war and through the huge flows of refugees that followed both …

This paper focuses on the relationship between population growth and economic growth in many developing countries. Our … population growth and economic growth exhibit a potent long-run (rather than a short-run) relationship across countries. The … results further suggest that population expansion positively contributes to economic development in the majority of the …

The Canadian population is aging as the children of the "baby boom" move into and through middle age and then on toward … the retirement years. The "baby bust" that followed the boom has slowed the rate of population growth and reduced sharply … taken on an important role in determining the rates of population and labour force growth. We explore these and related …

going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life … national income and life expectancy will not persist, particularly over the ranges of income of primary interest to the Human … existing “puzzles” come from using either very short time-horizons or very small moves in income per capita when the Preston …

determinants of migration flows. We further find that population ageing is almost inevitable over the next decades even accounting … for projected migration. Indeed, the dependency ratio, or the ratio of retirees to the working population, may double in …