Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 2-14
migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We … siblings, and region. We find that wealth discouraged migration in this era, suggesting that the poor could be more likely to … move if migration restrictions were lifted today. We discuss the implications of these historical findings to developing …
