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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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Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
Hatton, Timothy J.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and … that history matters in immigrant assimilation: the stronger is the tradition of immigration from a given source country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761821
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Two Centuries of International Migration
Ferrie, Joseph; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2013
the OECD. The chapter describes the structure, direction and determinants of migration flows and the assimilation …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329135
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The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333330
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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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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004
Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262050
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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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A dual policy paradox: why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch … explanations for the between-country variance in voter anti-trade and anti-migration attitude, and links this to the fundamentals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267932