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Luddites and the Demographic Transition [PDF]

Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution, but is skill-biased today. This is not embedded in extant unified growth models.
Kevin H. O'Rourke, Ahmed S. Rahman and Alan M. Taylor
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The demographic transition and economic growth: implications for development policy

Palgrave Communications, 2015
An important transition in the economic history of countries occurs when they move from a regime of low prosperity, high child mortality and high fertility to a state of high prosperity, low child mortality and low fertility.
Shyam Ranganathan, R. B. Swain, D. Sumpter   +2 more
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Early and Late Demographic Transitions: the Role of Urbanization [PDF]

This paper uses new estimates of the dates on which different countries have experienced their demographic transition to address two empirical questions.
Cuberes, David
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Human capital, culture and the onset of the demographic transition [PDF]

, 2012
This paper uses estimates of the dates at which different countries have experienced their demographic transitions to examine the main historical determinants of these transitions.
Basso, A., Cuberes, D.
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Africa’s demographic transition : dividend or disaster?

, 2015
The demographic dividend describes the interplay between changes in a population’s age structure due to the demographic transition and rapid economic growth. Except for a few countries in Southern Africa and some island nations, fertility rates and youth
D. Canning, S. Raja, A. Yazbeck
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Thinking about post-transitional demographic regimes: A reflection

Demographic Research, 2013
BACKGROUND For the last 70 years the concept of the demographic transition has provided a basis for understanding and predicting population trends in the developing world.
Chris Wilson
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Demographic Transition and the Development of Indonesia

Forum Geografi, 2014
The Indonesian population is still growing rapidly and it is induced by fertility and mortacity aspect. In the period of 1961-1971, the overage rate of population growth was 2.1 percent and it became 2.34 percent in the next decade. After that a decrease
P Priyono
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Product Variety and the Demographic Transition [PDF]

Why does the rate of population growth decline in the face of economic growth? We show that growing product variety may induce a permanent reduction in the demand for children and a continuous rise in income and consumption.demographic transition; demand
Jacob Weisdorf, Ricardo Andrés Guzmán
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Structure of Demographic Types of Small Towns in Poland Spatial and Temporal Approach [PDF]

, 2016
The aim of this paper is to determine changes in the structure of demographic types of small towns in Poland between 2004 and 2013. It is assumed in the paper, following the Central Statistical Office of Poland, that small towns are urban settlements ...
Kamińska, Wioletta, Mularczyk, Mirosław   +1 more
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Fertility decline, changes in age structure, and the potential for demographic dividends: A global analysis [PDF]

Demographic Research
BACKGROUND: The demographic dividend, a concept that is widely used in development cooperation, describes the economic growth potential based on shifts towards a large share of working-age population in the course of the demographic transition.
Markus Dörflinger, Elke Loichinger
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