The paper  aims to explore the impacts of bi-demographic structure on the current account and growth. We use a Structural VAR modelingto track the dynamic impacts between the underlying variables of  Saudi economy. New insights are developed in studying the relation between population growth, current account and economic growth inside the neoclassical theory of population. The long-run net impact on economic growth of the bi-source of population growth is negative due to lower skills of the immigrant labor endowment. This empirical outcome also confirmed in some previous papers. Besides, the negative long-run contribution of immigrant workers to the current account growth largely exceeds that of  the native population  because of the increasing levels of remittance outflows  . We find that a positive shock in the migration flows leads to a negative impact on native active age ratio. Thus, the immigrants appear to be more substitutes than complements for native workers.
The paper , as a new contribution, aims to explore the impacts of bi-demographic structure on the current account and growth. By using a SVAR modeling, we track the dynamic impacts between the underlying variables of the Saudi economy. New insights have been developed to study the interrelations between population growth, current account and economic growth inside the neoclassical theory of population. The long-run net impact on economic growth of the bi-population growth is negative , due to the typically lower skill sets of the immigrant labor population. Besides, the negative long-run contribution of immigrant workers to the current account growth largely exceeds that of contributions from the native population , because of the increasing levels of remittance outflows from the country . We find that a positive shock in immigration leads to a negative impact on native active age ratio. Thus, the immigrants appear to be more substitutes than complements for native workers.
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