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During the Age of Mass Migration, 30 million Europeans emigrated to the United States. We study the long-term political effects of this large-scale migration episode on origin communities using detailed historical data from Sweden, a major sending country in the period. To instrument for...
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We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
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Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht in mehreren Beiträgen Migrationsbewegungen und regionale Entwicklungen in Rumänien. Vor dem Hintergrund der sozio-ökonomischen Transformation werden Ursachen und Folgen von Wanderungsbewegungen sowie regionalpolitische Gegebenheiten untersucht. Außerdem...
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reforms, which we use to study, for the first time, the evolution of support for economic and political reforms from 1991 to … political reforms has generally been higher. Support attitudes are lower among the old, less skilled, unemployed, poor, and …, opinions on the speed of reforms, political preferences and preferences towards redistribution, ideology and social capital …
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The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social, and political change. This essay offers a concise...
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