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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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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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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"
Taylor, Alan M. - 1994
Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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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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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2001
movers as well as indirectly making already-measured employment conditions less attractive). These two features are even more …
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