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European asylum policy
Hatton, Timothy J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267438
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822265
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791977
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261985
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265634
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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269792
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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014
It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377373
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Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe: Preference versus Salience
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017
There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether the individual would prefer more or less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744550
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Refugee and asylum migration to the OECD: A short overview
Hatton, Timothy J. - 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/10010289994
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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959313