determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the 'Great Divergence' in income per capita across …

determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the Great Divergence in income per capita across …

across countries and has thereby been a major determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of …

According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …

pay for quality rises with their income. Second, heterogeneities in productivity become more pronounced at higher levels …

trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … Britain trades with North America and the rest of the world, and calibrate the model to data from the 1760s and 1850s. We find …

in migration patterns for the growth and distribution of world income and population using a model with endogenous … also shows that the world economy may converge to a special kind of core-periphery equilibrium where increasing inequality … periphery is increased. Thus Brain Drain migration may increase inequality between countries at the same time as reducing world …