Demographic Change and Economic Development

✍ Scribed by Gunter Steinmann (auth.), Prof. Dr. Alois Wenig, PD Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Series: Studies in Contemporary Economics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, population economics has become increasingly popular in both economic and policy analysis. For the inquiry into the long term development of an economy, the interaction between demographic change and economic activity cannot be neglected without omitting major aspects of the problems. This volume helps to further developments in theoretical and applied demographical economics covering the issues of demographic change and economic development. The interaction between demographic change and economic development in the long run is one central issue. One conjecture is that it is mainly the relative population pressure which controls the pace of economic development. However, econometric evidence presented in the book does not support this hypothesis. Other papers deal with the relationships between fertility and business cycle fluctuations, the timing of births, the efficiency in intergenerational transfers, the role of open economies for the population issue, historical perspectives of demographic change in Hungary and an outline of recent developments of applied modelling using input-output models, programming models or econometric techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Malthusian Crises, Boserupian Escapes and Longrun Economic Progress....Pages 3-28
Endogenous Fluctuations in the Barro-Becker Theory of Fertility....Pages 29-41
Mortality Changes and Their Economic Consequences, with Particular Reference to Cause of Death....Pages 42-69
Market Failure, Population Growth and Government Intervention in a Life-Cycle Growth Model....Pages 73-93
Capital Accumulation and Population Growth in Two Sector Closed and Open Economies....Pages 94-115
“Population Drag” and the Role of the International Sector....Pages 116-129
The Timing of Births: A Theory of Fertility, Family Expenditures and Labour Market Participation Over Time....Pages 133-151
Equilibrium and Efficiency in Intergenerational Transfers....Pages 152-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Economic Change and Family Size in Hungarian Historical Demography....Pages 169-182
Demographic Change and Economic Development in Hungary Since the Second World War....Pages 183-201
A Case for Some Simple Analytics of Demographic Change and Economic Development....Pages 205-210
Monetary Methods of Estimating Informal Activities in Developing Nations....Pages 211-232
Interaction Between Macro-Economic Activities and Demographic Changes in Selected Developing Countries....Pages 233-250
An Extension of a Static Input-Output Model for Demographic-Economic Analysis....Pages 253-271
Consumption, Savings and Demography....Pages 272-305
A Flexible Programming Model to Study Problems of Population Economics....Pages 306-324
Back Matter....Pages 325-325

✦ Subjects

Population Economics