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| Title: | | Why Don't Labor and Capital Flow Between Young and Old Countries?  |
| Authors: | | an de Meulen, Philipp Calahorrano, Lena |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Frankfurt a.M. 2009 21 |
| Abstract: | | To counter the effects of population aging in rich industrialized countries, raising immigration from and raising capital exports to younger developing countries are often seen as alternative solutions. In this paper, we explicitly account for mobility constraints in the form of immigration restrictions in industrialized countries and expropriation risk in developing countries to investigate whether efficiency gains from factor movements are likely to be realized. We set up a one-period general equilibrium model of two economies with young and old individuals. Emigration from the developing country weakens its young generation's expropriation preferences, permitting more FDI. However, if the bulk of capital is invested abroad, the old investor's utility gain from immigration is low. Our model suggests that large differences in age structures do not unambiguously encourage large factor flows, when the level of factor flows is determined by policy. |
| Subjects: | | Demographic Change Political Economy Immigration Policy International Investment |
| JEL: | | D78 F21 F22 J10 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2009 (Frankfurt a.M.)
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