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Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023

voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered. …

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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316910

Fertility decline and the heights of children in Britain, 1886 - 1938

Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2009

In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … that the fertility decline is a neglected source of the rapid improvement in health in the first half of the twentieth … century. -- Fertility decline ; heights of children ; health in Britain …

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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001 - 2010

O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...

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Emigration from the UK, 1870 - 1913 and 1950 - 1998

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The political economy of assisted immigration : Australia 1860-1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023

From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a variety of assisted passages. The colonies/states shared a common culture and sought migrants from a common source, the UK, but set policy independently of each other. This experience...

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Two centuries of international migration

Ferrie, Joseph P.; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2013

This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration since the industrial revolution. We focus principally on long-distance migration to rich...

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International migration and the integration of labor markets

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2002

This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of intercontinental migration over the past four centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of Colonial settlement. The contract and coerced migration...

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Time on the crossing : emigrant voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023

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