40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Max Corden

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Abstract: If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting question.

Keywords: Australia; Ageing; Emigrants; Family Stream; Humanitarian Program; Immigrants; Immigration; Irrigation; Long-term Temporary Arrivals; Migration; Multicultural; Murray-Darling basin; Population; Skill Snowy Mountains scheme; Stream; Tyranny of distance; Water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-02-02
Note: Type of Document - pdf; prepared on NT; to print on HP; pages: 26; figures: no
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