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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper … documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950 …

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first …

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To the New World and Back Again : Return Migrants in the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2016

We compile large datasets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass … Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who …

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

Hatton, Timothy J. - 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 publicly-subsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...

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