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The 'Tampa' Effect. Australian Asylum Policy in International Perspective

Hatton, Timothy J.; Lim, Audrey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Australia’s policies towards asylum seekers hit the headlines when it refused to admit those aboard the Tampa in September 2001. This tough stance and the raft of legislation that followed became known as Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’. It was clearly intended to deter those who might...

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European Asylum Policy

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

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Two Centuries of International Migration

Ferrie, Joseph; Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration …. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration since the industrial revolution. We focus … principally on long-distance migration to rich destination countries, the settler economies in the nineteenth century and later …

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The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper examines three links in the chain between the slump and immigration policy. First, although...

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Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press

World mass migration began in the early nineteenth century, when advances in transportation technology and industrial … labor market. This book is the first comprehensive economic assessment of world mass migration taking a long-run historical … well as on the sending and receiving countries. Global Migration and the World Economy covers two great migration waves …

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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Hatton, Timothy J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

explanations for the between-country variance in voter anti-trade and anti-migration attitude, and links this to the fundamentals …Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the … opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost …

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Hatton, Timothy J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview

Hatton, Timothy J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 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/10009493102

Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

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

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 … exactly the same forces are at work driving African across-border migration today. Rapid growth in the cohort of young …

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