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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009
This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...
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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006
global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital …Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper … economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in immigration …
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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?
Clark, Ximena - 2002
The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source … have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a … US immigrants. Given this view, it seems all the more remarkable that the sources of immigration changed so dramatically …
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