Population, Internal Migration and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis

Robert S Moreland

The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) from University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Abstract: During the last 15 years or so, the role of population growth in the development process has received increasing attention. This has been manifested in the literature in three broad areas. In the first, the effects of rapid population growth on the growth on income have been studied with the use of simulation models (Enke (1971) (1974), Simon (1976)) which sometimes include endogenous population growth (Suits et at (1975), Hazledine and Moreland (1977)). In general these models show that per capita income could be increased by reducing the birth rate. However, they are often either unsophisticated in terms of the demographic structure (Suits et al (1975)) or the coefficients are imposed a priori (Enke (1971)) or key demographic rates are imposed exogenously (Simon (1976)) so that no feedback exists between the economy and demographic variables.

Pages: 73 pages
Date: 1979
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