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Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2016

This paper revisits demographic dividend issues after almost 2 decades of debate. In 1998, David Bloom and I used a convergence model to estimate the impact of demographic-transition-driven age structure effects and calculated what the literature has come to call the “demographic dividend.”...

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Intergenerational transfer, human capital and long-term growth in China under the one child policy

Zhu, Xi; Whalley, John; Zhao, Xiliang - In: Economic modelling 40 (2014), pp. 275-283

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Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-Term Growth in China Under the One Child Policy

Zhu, Xi - 2013

We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This … attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement under China's poor … of schooling rather than 8.1). Our model sheds new light on the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the …

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Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy

Zhu, Xi - 2013

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Demographic and economic pressure on emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...

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