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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital …

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A Dual Policy Paradox : Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2005

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti … concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of …

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Globalization in historical perspective

Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Taylor, Alan M. (contributor); … - 2003

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004

in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments … and international agencies have grappled with the twin problems of providing adequate humanitarian assistance in the Third … World and avoiding floods of unwanted asylum seekers arriving on the doorsteps of the First World. This is an issue that is …

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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?

Clark, Ximena - 2002

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a system that emphasized family reunification. Some...

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Racism, Xenophobia or Markets? The Political Economy of Immigration Policy Prior to the Thirties

Timmer, Ashley S. - 1996

one big regime switch around World War I. What explains immigration policy between 1860-1930? This paper identifies the …

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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration

Docquier, Frédéric - 2010

In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanovic, Branko - 2007

"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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