Population growth is an important issue in economic analysis: it not only directly affects the size of the aggregate demand but it also matters for economic growth analysis. On the other hand, population growth has outcomes for the study of inequality. It results in a larger size of labor supply and higher consumption prices.

Inequality may also be framed in institutional terms and we also propose to decompose inequality in two main components: institutional and caused by labor market forces.

During the BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Population Growth and Inequality Over the Long Run, we want to analyze this set of topics as well as the engines of population growth over the long run: fertility, migrations and life expectancies.

A crucial topic in the analysis of fertility is gender equality and the improvement of women’s economic position. On the other hand, a related outcome of low fertility (below replacement) is population ageing, the need for immigration and the current sustainability of the pensions System. We want to focus on all these topics from a long run perspective from the Malthusian period till the present.