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Megacities and Countries: Urbanization and Real Convergence
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014
A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400210
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"Megacities and countries : urbanization and real convergence"
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014
A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487041
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Global Population Dynamics Drive the Phases of the Great Divergence and Convergence
Korotayev, Andrey - 2014
The 19th century saw the explosive growth of a gap in per capita income between the First and Third World that has … capita gap between the First and Third World corresponds to the growth rate curve of the world population. We demonstrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059615
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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014
ABSTRACT. A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076064
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Do we have to be afraid of the future world of work?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2015
There is considerable concern regarding the prospective development of employment levels and job types in the future. The paper tries to highlight major trends shaping the world of work in developed economies with the aim of giving a realistic account of probable developments and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279738
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A Global View on Demographic Pressure and Labour Market Participation
Peeters, Marga - 2012
working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete picture of the (fiscal) pressure from demographic changes. In this … study, besides the share of the dependent population composed of the young and the old, we also include the share of the … working age population that is not active on the labour market, labelled as the labour market space. By analysing 21 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114462
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Global Population Stabilization Policy and Declining Work-Age Population Threat Global Economic Sustainability
Alam, Md. Mahmudul - 2017
industrialized countries are now managing with the migrant population drawn mostly from the high fertility low income countries. But …Faced with a phenomenal growth of population the world has embarked upon a population stabilization policy that has led … the fertility rate to fall and the work-age population for the future to shrink, pushing the world to a serious economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964503
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Global Population Stabilization Policy and Declining Work-Age Population : A Threat to Global Economic Sustainability
Alam, Md. Mahmudul - 2020
Faced with an exponentially growing world population, what is required is a population stabilization policy to control … the global fertility rates. This has implications for the working-age population in the future, and lead to a serious … economic crisis. It is envisaged that by the year 2050 the work-age population will have seriously declined but is still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834728
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Global Demographic Change on Australia
Liu, Weifeng - 2020
The world will experience dramatic demographic change over this century. This paper examines the impacts of this global demographic change on the Australian economy at both the aggregate and sectoral levels in a global multi-region and multi-sector general equilibrium model. Using a detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838076
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Demography of Global Aging
Bloom, David E. - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group … is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983909