The Productivity Commission release its research report into the ‘Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth …’ in May 2006. According to the Commission’s findings increasing skilled migration would make a positive, but small …. To assess the effect of skilled migration, the Commission estimated the economic effects of a simulated permanent …

Purpose: The link between population growth and economic growth has been becoming of most significant interest for … researchers. However, there is no consensus among economists and researchers about the interaction between population and economic … Lag (ARDL) co-integration approach and Toda-Yamamoto Causality tests. Finding: Population and economic growth (Proxied by …

. This paper examines whether a hidden potential for rural population growth can be found in Sweden. If such potential exists … associated with population decline. In this paper we employ a combination of survey data and register data to identify the … characteristics of people who have expressed a desire to move to rural areas and compare this population with those who actually do …

In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population … planning has been abandoned. In regard to effects on population size, it seems like immigration policies were set by a sorcerer … growth, and from 1950 to 2020, population increased by 73%, double the European rate, in a country with population density …

increase in global population. We use for this purpose a relatively unknown but simple and attractive social evaluation … approach called critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CLGU). CLGU posits that social welfare increases with population …. Otherwise, some of the admissible CLGU functions will judge the last two decades' increase in global population size to have …

increase in global population. We use for this purpose a relatively unknown but simple and attractive social evaluation … approach called critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CLGU). CLGU posits that social welfare increases with population …. Otherwise, some of the admissible CLGU functions will judge the last two decades’ increase in global population size to have …

The widely-observed finding in the literature showing little or no relationship between population growth (and …

prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of "free" migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that … exactly the same forces are at work driving African across-border migration today. Rapid growth in the cohort of young …

. Countries with initially higher mortality from infectious diseases experienced greater increases in life expectancy, population … period, a faster increase in population made social conflict more likely, probably because it increased competition for … scarce resources in low income countries. Keywords: civil war, population growth. JEL Classification: J1, 011, O15, Q56 …