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distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases by …
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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 … fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …
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Many authors argue that societal fertility levels are a function of changing gender relations, but the mechanism behind … gender role attitudes influences fertility: a great variation in attitudes among potential partners causes uncertainty and … regressed on the level of fertility. Attitudes are computed through factor analysis and capture opinions towards the gendered …
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migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
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Higher fertility slowly increases the workers-to-retirees ratio over the long run, which can ease the pension financing …-productivity profiles and pension systems can explain the exception. Fertility-promoting policies will always ease the public finance …
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In general, the spreading of egalitarian family values has often been associated with a decline in fertility. However …, recently a rebound in fertility has been observed in several industrialized countries. A possible explanation of this trend may … to study the diffusion from traditional to egalitarian gender-behavior and its impact on fertility. We find that the long …
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the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot...
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