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markets -- Immigration shocks and labor market absorption : two modern examples -- Immigrants, wages, and inequality : the …? -- Explaining immigration policy before the 1930's : political debate and backlash -- Summing up …
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Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This …-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international … between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in …
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Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper … global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital … economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in immigration …
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Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...
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: the first, from the 1820s to the beginning of World War I, when immigration was largely unrestricted; the second … these two global centuries when world migration shrank sharply because of two world wars, immigration quotas, and the Great …World mass migration began in the early nineteenth century, when advances in transportation technology and industrial …
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