Fertility changes and replacement migration

Fertility changes and replacement migration

We study OECD countries that differ in immigration policies but share a high level of human capital. We find significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economics letters 2020-11, Vol.196, p.109519, Article 109519
Hauptverfasser: Aksoy, Yunus, Zoega, Gylfi
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Sprache:eng
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Fertility
Replacement migration
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Zusammenfassung:We study OECD countries that differ in immigration policies but share a high level of human capital. We find significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market.
ISSN:0165-1765
1873-7374
DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109519