contracts were offered to European laborers during the transition from slavery in Brazil. Building on some new historical … into the global circuit of the Age of Mass Migration without promoting institutional reforms to attract non …-bonded immigrants. Second, sharecropping became the most prevalent contract in the first phase of the transition from slavery not …

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …

information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …

migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 … migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …

characteristics, migration duration, origin location, and family structure. Households migrating with school-age children have a … coastal regions. After controlling for migration scope and destination location, the presence of children does not influence …

This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of intercontinental migration over the past four … centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Colonial settlement. The contract and coerced migration from Europe and Africa gave way, from the 18th century, to an era of …