Arbeitspapier
Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a 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 more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8329
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
Neoclassical Models of Trade
Economic Growth of Open Economies
- Subject
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global inequality
migration
fertility
Africa
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Mountford, Andrew
Rapoport, Hillel
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mountford, Andrew
- Rapoport, Hillel
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2014
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