Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality

21 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2014

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Andrew Mountford

Royal Holloway, University of London

Hillel Rapoport

Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics; Stanford University

Abstract

According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality.

Keywords: global inequality, migration, fertility, Africa

JEL Classification: O40, F11, F43

Suggested Citation

Mountford, Andrew and Rapoport, Hillel, Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality. IZA Discussion Paper No. 8329, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2468505 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2468505

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Hillel Rapoport

Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics ( email )

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Stanford University ( email )

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