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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Europe. We construct a panel data set of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first …This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of top football players in … tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top tax rate …