link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical …

of future population size. The essay begins with a summary of welfare economic theory as it pertains to situations where … population size is not subject to choice, and notes that a symmetry (or anonymity) axiom on social welfare functions has almost … invariably been invoked in the theory. It then summarizes optimum population theory and emphasizes that the existing theory …

is on the wage pressure that the threat of migration from East to West is likely to impose. The paper adopts a Ramsey … the East. All these effects are reduced by the migration-induced wage pressure as less capital is accumulated in the East …

analysis, comparing relative economic performance of various migrant generations to one another and to the native population … second, but more than the first. Thus, assimilation of the third generation into the local population is far from clear. …