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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. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...

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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002

globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …

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The Immigrant and Native-born Wage Distributions : Evidence from United States Censuses

Butcher, Kristin F. - 1998

Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean wages of immigrants vis … vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine changes in the wage structure and their role in...

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The Educational Attainment of Immigrants : Trends and Implications

Betts, Julian R. - 1998

This paper uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study trends in educational attainment of immigrants relative to natives. Immigrants have become relatively less highly educated, but have become more highly educated in an absolute sense. The effects of changes in relative educational...

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An Analysis of the Earnings of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1989

The estimates are used to assess (1) the usefulness of cross-sectional analyses for measuring the pace of immigrant earnings growth, (2) the labor market implications of admissions policies that place different weights on the work skills possessed by prospective entrants, and (3) the relative...

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Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1987

This paper analyzes the way in which the earnings of the immigrant population may be expected to differ from the earnings of the native population because of the endogeneity of the migration decision. The conditions that determine the nature of the self -selection are derived and depend on...

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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 … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since …, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …

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The European Origins of Economic Development

Easterly, William - 2012

Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper …

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Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization

O'Rourke, Kevin - 2003

The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions of Heckscher-Ohlin theory. The theory predicts that the impact of being skilled or unskilled on attitudes towards trade and immigration should depend on a country's skill...

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