Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 23 (2009) 2, pp. 17-28
International migration in the last half century is often characterised as following an inexorable upward trend that … emigration typically traces out what is sometimes called the 'migration hump' and what we call an 'emigration life cycle'. This … paper examines the forces that underlay the mass migration from pre-1914 Europe and compares them with the experience since …