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Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …
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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 the early 1990s. The current economic crisis will serve only to accelerate those trends. The paper … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since …
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This paper documents a stylized fact: 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 economic crisis will serve only to accelerate those trends. The paper estimates the economic and demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004966280
Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265634
and the actual use of them? – migration ; poverty ; demographic economics ; emigration ; immigration …
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Clark, Hatton, and Williamson develop and estimate a model explaining the level and country-source composition of United States immigration since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios of source country income, education, and demographic structure, as well as relative inequality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749540
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 economic crisis will serve only to accelerate those trends. The paper … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778727
OECD governments note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and keeping out others. Economists appear to be well armed to advise governments since they are responsible for an impressive literature that examines the characteristics of...
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In this paper we develop and estimate a model to explain the level and source country composition of immigration to the United States since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios to the US of source country income and education, and demographic structure, as well as relative inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032860