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Hatton, Timothy J. - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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European Asylum Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum 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...

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Refugee and asylum migration to the OECD: A short overview

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2012

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention is given to the rising trend of asylum applications...

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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...

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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

and their effects on wages and income distribution in source and destination countries; and the evolution of immigration …

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What determines immigration's impact? : Comparing two global centuries

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

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Vanishing Third World emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

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

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th … century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before …

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A dual policy paradox: why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

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 … in the net fiscal impact of trade relative to immigration, and changes in the median voter. The paper also offers …

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