While traditional theories of legitimacy have focused on the nation-state, authoritarian regimes and democracies alike seek legitimation not only in the domestic realm but also from international sources. This paper argues that the degree to, and the form in, which they do so depend on the...

We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue, Hispanic Catholics will experience rapid growth,...

Zuwanderung ist in Deutschland in diesen Tagen ein großes Thema. Dieser Artikel stellt Teile eines aktuellen Gutachtens vor, das das ifo Institut im Auftrag der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung erstellt hat. Darin werden die Auswirkungen von regulärer Migration auf die Zusammensetzung der Bevölkerung...

In den nächsten Jahren wird in Deutschland die Zahl der Geburten die Sterbefälle nicht ausgleichen können. Dank des Netto-Zustroms von Flüchtlingen wird die Bevölkerung trotzdem weiter wachsen. Von 81,2Mill. Menschen Ende 2014 wird die Bevölkerung bis Ende 2020 auf 83,6Mill. (Szenario 1)...

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...

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

The future development of population size and structure is of importance since planning in many areas of politics and business is conducted based on expectations about the future makeup of the population. Countries with both decreasing mortality and low fertility rates, which is the case for...