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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 … prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of ?free? migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …

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European asylum policy

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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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 … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …

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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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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe: Preference versus Salience

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether the individual would prefer more or less...

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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 …

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Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959594

Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of "free" migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761717