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Demographic change and international trade

Green, Johanna LU (2018) EKHS01 20181
Department of Economic History
Abstract
Demographic transitions are something that every country goes through, however do countries do it at different times. The Western world and Japan are today facing aging populations, developing countries of Africa are still facing high mortality, high fertility rates and booming populations while countries of South Asia and South America are somewhere in between. The demographic diffusion sets up a situation where it is interesting to assess the effect of demographic factors on countries comparative advantage and their trade patterns, which is what this thesis set out to do. With a data set of 110 countries and the time period of 1962 to 2000 does this thesis find indications that life expectancy and fertility rate does affect countries... (More)
Demographic transitions are something that every country goes through, however do countries do it at different times. The Western world and Japan are today facing aging populations, developing countries of Africa are still facing high mortality, high fertility rates and booming populations while countries of South Asia and South America are somewhere in between. The demographic diffusion sets up a situation where it is interesting to assess the effect of demographic factors on countries comparative advantage and their trade patterns, which is what this thesis set out to do. With a data set of 110 countries and the time period of 1962 to 2000 does this thesis find indications that life expectancy and fertility rate does affect countries export and import to some extent. The best result is found when using fast changing demographic countries. Even though the result is mere indications does the result suggest that the future demographic changes in Asia and Africa will be of importance for future international trade. (Less)
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Green, Johanna LU
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EKHS01 20181
year
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H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
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language
English
id
8956362
date added to LUP
2018-08-20 14:46:28
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2018-08-20 14:46:28
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  abstract     = {{Demographic transitions are something that every country goes through, however do countries do it at different times. The Western world and Japan are today facing aging populations, developing countries of Africa are still facing high mortality, high fertility rates and booming populations while countries of South Asia and South America are somewhere in between. The demographic diffusion sets up a situation where it is interesting to assess the effect of demographic factors on countries comparative advantage and their trade patterns, which is what this thesis set out to do. With a data set of 110 countries and the time period of 1962 to 2000 does this thesis find indications that life expectancy and fertility rate does affect countries export and import to some extent. The best result is found when using fast changing demographic countries. Even though the result is mere indications does the result suggest that the future demographic changes in Asia and Africa will be of importance for future international trade.}},
  author       = {{Green, Johanna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Demographic change and international trade}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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