Economic Consequences Of Population Change In Industrialized Countries

Author : G. Steinmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 428 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642864780

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Economic Consequences of Population Change in Industrialized Countries by G. Steinmann Pdf

The recent experience of industrialized countries with low fer tility and persistent immigration has stimulated interest in the eco nomic effects of population change in industrial countries and has led to new research in population economics. In Germany, however, where these demographic trends were perhaps most pronounced, research on po pulation economics has lagged. During recent years more German econo mists have also turned to this topic. This upsurge in research activity motivated the organisation of an international conference entitled "Economic Consequences of Population Change in Industrialized Coun tries", which was held from June 1 to June 3, 1983 at the University of Paderborn, W. Germany. The conference was designed to discuss and assess the new theoretical and empirical research work on the effects of population change on the economy, to intensify the international cooperation and to stimulate the research in population economics in W. Germany. This volume contains 23 revised versions of the 27 papers pre sented at the conference. Although the topics of the papers are di verse, they can be grouped into six general themes: The first section, including papers by Cigno, Steinmann, and Simon, deals with models of the secular interrelationships between population change, technical progress and economic growth. The models are built upon the framework of neoclassical growth theory and are extended by the assumption that the rate of technical progress is positively linked with population growth or population density.

Author : Gunter Steinmann,Stiftung Volkswagenwerk
Publisher : Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387135138

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Economic Consequences of Population Change in Industrialized Countries by Gunter Steinmann,Stiftung Volkswagenwerk Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848303549

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Economic Consequences of Population Change in Industrialized Countries by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Bloom,David Canning,Jaypee Sevilla
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780833033734

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The Demographic Dividend by David Bloom,David Canning,Jaypee Sevilla Pdf

There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and synthesizes current research on the topic. The authors, led by Harvard economist David Bloom, conclude that population age structure, more than size or growth per se, affects economic development, and that reducing high fertility can create opportunities for economic growth if the right kinds of educational, health, and labor-market policies are in place. The report also examines specific regions of the world and how their differing policy environments have affected the relationship between population change and economic development.

Author : Gunter Steinmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883137034

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Economic Consequences of Population Change in Industrialized Countries by Gunter Steinmann Pdf

Author : Thomas J. Espenshade,William J. Serow
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483266060

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The Economic Consequences of Slowing Population Growth by Thomas J. Espenshade,William J. Serow Pdf

The Economic Consequences of Slowing Population Growth is a collection of papers dealing with the economic implications of a sustained low fertility rate on an industrialized country. The book reviews the situation prevailing in the United States including the country's demographic trends and prospects. The text also presents the uncertainties, the unknown, and the known economic consequences of low fertility as analyzed from previous generations. One paper examines the lessons that can be learned from a zero population growth in Europe by comparing theory and reality. This paper expounds on the social and economic effects while transitioning to a zero growth rate. Other papers examine the inter-relationships between unemployment, inflation, and economic policy. These papers also give recommendations to cut unemployment levels without causing inflation in the process. Other papers discuss social security and other needs of an aging population. One paper examines rising concerns over population movements in times of slower U.S. population growth; the author cites data reflecting migration trends and population declines in several metropolitan areas. The text can prove useful for sociologists, social workers, public health services officers, and public economists.

Author : Allen C. Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UVA:X002525484

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Economic Consequences of Population Change in the Third World by Allen C. Kelley Pdf

Author : Institut National d'etudes Demographiques
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135843298

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Consequences Of Rapid Population Growth In Developing Countries by Institut National d'etudes Demographiques Pdf

First Published in 1991. This book holds the proceedings of the United Nations Institut national d' etudes demographiques Expert Group Meeting, New York, held on the 23-26 August 1988. Topics include the global trends in population growth, adaptation to rapid population growth, aspects and normative problems.

Author : Ian Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136447983

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Economics and Demography (Routledge Revivals) by Ian Bowen Pdf

First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation. Professor Bowen, with many years’ experience of research into the economic and statistical aspects of population and world development, provides a survey of the population of the world, and of how political economists have explained population growth. The author’s survey looks first at the mechanisms of growth – fertility, mortality, and migration – followed by an account of theories of growth from Adam Smith to the present day. Professor Bowen, a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, who taught at universities in England, America, Australia and Asia, writes from the point of view of a political economist rather than a demographer, and Economics and Demography is of particular value to students of development, development economics and demography within departments of economics, economic history and geography.

Author : Julian Lincoln Simon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400862177

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Population and Development in Poor Countries by Julian Lincoln Simon Pdf

Making the case that population growth does not hinder economic progress and that it eventually raises standards of living, Julian Simon became one of the most controversial figures in economics during the past decade. This book gathers a set of articles--theoretical, empirical, and policy analyses--written over the past twenty years, which examine the effects of population increase on various aspects of economic development in less-developed economies. The studies show that within a century, or even a quarter of a century, the positive benefits of additional people counterbalance the short-run costs. The process is as follows: increased numbers of consumers, and the resultant increase of total income, expand the demand for raw materials and finished products. The resulting actual and expected shortages force up prices of the natural resources. The increased prices trigger the search for new ways to satisfy the demand, and sooner or later new sources and innovative substitutes are found. These new discoveries lead to cheaper natural resources than existed before this process began, leaving humanity better off than if the shortages had not appeared. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Universities--National Bureau Committee for Economic Research
Publisher : National Bureau of Economic Research
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Developed countries
ISBN : UCAL:B4415022

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Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries by Universities--National Bureau Committee for Economic Research Pdf

Author : Takatoshi Ito,Andrew K. Rose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226386881

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The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia by Takatoshi Ito,Andrew K. Rose Pdf

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and a rise in fiscal deficits linked to increased government spending. East Asia exemplifies these trends, and this volume offers an in-depth look at how long-term demographic transitions have taken shape there and how they have affected the economy in the region. The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia assembles a group of experts to explore such topics as comparative demographic change, population aging, the rising cost of health care, and specific policy concerns in individual countries. The volume provides an overview of economic growth in East Asia as well as more specific studies on Japan, Korea, China, and Hong Kong. Offering important insights into the causes and consequences of this transition, this book will benefit students, researchers, and policy makers focused on East Asia as well as anyone concerned with similar trends elsewhere in the world.

Author : Evert van Imhoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642838958

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Optimal Economic Growth and Non-Stable Population by Evert van Imhoff Pdf

This book studies optimal economic growth in a closed economy which experiences non-stable population growth. The economy is described by means of a neoclassical growth model which distinguishes overlapping generations within the population. The basic neoclassical growth model is extended to include various types of technical change, as well as investment in human capital or education. The research described in this book connects the analytical tools of traditional growth theory with the actual demographic experience of most industrialized countries. The role of demographic processes in the growth theoretical literature is discussed in the next section. The discussion will show that growth theory needs to extend its scope through the construction of growth models which explicitly recognize demographic forces as a potential source of non-stationarities. This book constitutes a first attempt at such a demographic extension. 1.1 Growth theory and demographic change The theory of economic growth (e.g. Solow, 1970; Burmeister & Dobell, 1970; Wan, 1971) attempts to describe and to explain the long-run development of an economic system (or, in short, economy). An economic system is essentially dynamic in nature. Among the most important sources of dynamics in economics are the following: accumulation of capital (investment); technical change; population growth. Some of these dynamic forces are, at least in part, endogenous to the economic system (i.e. determined by economic variables).

Author : O.G. Simmons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781468455144

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Perspectives on Development and Population Growth in the Third World by O.G. Simmons Pdf

Until the early to mid-1970s, social scientists in the fields of population and development were largely going their own ways. Demographers relied almost exclusively on demographic transition theory as their para digm for understanding the role of development in population change and fertility decline. Conversely, most development economists and other specialists were certainly aware of the constraints placed upon development objectives by population growth. However, the main de velopment theories paid little attention to population and the implica tions of population growth for development. Indeed it was not until after the World Population Conference in Bucharest in 1974 that the interaction of population and development became a serious and pur posive theme for social scientific study. Accordingly, since about the mid-1970s, an extensive literature in the field of population and develop ment has been generated. And in 1975, under the auspices of The Popu lation Council, the journal Population and Development Review was found ed, a journal which in the past decade has developed into the premier publication in the world for work in this area. But our understanding of development as it refers to change in Third World countries remained fragmented. Moreover, our understanding of the linkages and interac tions between population and development was very limited. It is in this regard that Ozzie Simmons's Perspectives on Development and Population Growth in the Third World will certainly have an impact.

Author : Dennis A. Ahlburg,Allen C. Kelley,Karen Oppenheim Mason
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783662032398

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The Impact of Population Growth on Well-being in Developing Countries by Dennis A. Ahlburg,Allen C. Kelley,Karen Oppenheim Mason Pdf

This book examines the nature and significance of the impact of population growth on the weIl-being of developing countries-in particular, the effects on economic growth, education, health, food supply, housing, poverty, and the environment. In addition, because family planning programmes often significantly affect population growth, the study examines the impacts of family planning on fertility and health, and the human rights implications of family planning programmes. In considering the book's conclusions about the impact of population growth on development, four caveats should be noted. First, the effects of population growth vary from place to place and over time. Thus, blanket statements about overall effects often cannot be made. Where possible, the authors note the contexts in which population effects are strongest and weakest. Second, all of the outcomes examined in this book are influenced by factors other than population growth. Moreover, the impact of population growth may itself vary according to the presence or absence of other factors. This again makes bl anket statements about the effects of population growth difficult. Throughout the chapters, the authors try to identify other relevant factors that influence the outcomes we discuss or that influence the impact of population growth on those outcomes.