title: Long-run migration incentives and migration effects: the case of different fertility rates.
abstract: "In this paper the direction of the long-run migration incentive in the presence of closed borders and the long-run welfare effects of a regime change from 'autarky' to 'free permanent migration' are studied. A difference in birth-country specific fertility rates is treated as the final cause for the creation of migration incentives in a two-country model where the standard overlapping-generations framework is used.... Opening the borders for permanent migration can always lead to the equalization of labour force growth rates. A continuum of such equilibria with migration does exist, but the application of the concept of migration-stability, introduced in this paper, gives reason to the suspicion that free migration can also lead to a collapse of the emigration country's economy." (SUMMARY IN GER)
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Meier
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005298:Fertility; D006280:Health Workforce; D009042:Motivation; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D013995:Time; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Demographic Factors; Differential Fertility; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Fertility; Human Resources; Incentives; International Migration; Labor Force; Longterm Effects; Migration; Migration Policy; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Social Policy; Time Factors; World