Using future age profiles to improve immigration projections
| Autor: | Terje Skjerpen, Marianne Tønnessen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Population Dynamics Immigration Population 0507 social and economic geography Fertility Age structure Affect (psychology) Emigration Sociology Population projections 050602 political science & public administration Humans Young adult Child Population Growth education Migration Aged Demography media_common education.field_of_study 05 social sciences Emigration and Immigration FOS: Sociology 0506 political science 160399 Demography not elsewhere classified Ageing Projections of population growth Geography Female 050703 geography Forecasting |
| Zdroj: | Population Studies |
| ISSN: | 1477-4747 0032-4728 |
| Popis: | Young adults migrate more than elderly people. As populations in many origin countries get older, this may affect out-migration – and thus immigration to other countries. This is usually not taken into account in projections of future immigration, even though a marked ageing is expected to take place globally. We show how United Nations’ projections of future age profiles in origin countries can be combined with emigration rates by age groups to improve national projections of immigration to a destination country, exemplified by Norway. Using several methods for projecting future migration, our results show that projected immigration tends to decline when taking expected ageing in origin regions into account. Further, we demonstrate how such declines in projected immigration affect the projections for the total Norwegian population up to 2100. Our results suggest that by taking changing age profiles in origin regions into account in immigration projections, the projected population size in Norway would be reduced equivalent to that of reducing the fertility assumptions by 0.1 children per woman. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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