Thonstad, Tore; Riis, Christian; Bævre, Kåre - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 3, pp. 473-489
This paper introduces a counterfactual technique to estimate net emigration from Norwegian birth cohorts from 1846 to … 1900. A main finding is that despite strong fluctuations in annual emigration, the percentage reduction of each cohort due … to emigration was surprisingly stable for all cohorts from 1846 to 1886, with net emigration of about 30% for males and …