abundant Europe and the high-wage, labour scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labour … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labour scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labour scarcity and …

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while … Europe it has mainly the function of a buffer and of a “balm for the soul”. There is an extensive literature on the ‘bridge …

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …

emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since … projections imply that pressure on Third World emigration over the next two decades will not increase. It also suggests that …

This paper develops a simple time-series model of emigration and applies it to data for emigration from the UK between … rates in the sending and the receiving countries influenced fluctuations in emigration. The short-run fluctuations were … driven largely by variations in employment rates while the long-run level of emigration was determined largely by the …

Emigration of labour and its subsequent repatriation can best be understood as phases of an intertemporal exchange … presented. The formulation of the emigration-repatriation cycle as an intertemporal phenomenon highlights the need for forward …-looking policies. The analysis suggests that planning for the period of net immigration and of reduced remittances should be an …

In this paper we evaluate quantitatively the impact of mass emigration from Ireland between the 1850s and the first … find that, in the absence of emigration, faster labour force growth would have resulted in lower real wage growth, reducing …

. Also, we find that virtually the entire positive relationship between education and the rate of emigration would be …

, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The …This paper documents a stylized fact: the Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and … fundamentals driving these emigration life cycles to the United States since 1970 – income and education gaps between the US and …

important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six …