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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?

Clark, Ximena - 2002

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source … have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a … US immigrants. Given this view, it seems all the more remarkable that the sources of immigration changed so dramatically …

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

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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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th … century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized immigration in the first global century before …

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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"

Taylor, Alan M. - 1994

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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Racism, Xenophobia or Markets? The Political Economy of Immigration Policy Prior to the Thirties

Timmer, Ashley S. - 1996

, Australia, Brazil, and Canada enacted similar measures, although the anti-immigration policy drift often took the form of an … one big regime switch around World War I. What explains immigration policy between 1860-1930? This paper identifies the … fundamentals that underlay the formation of immigration policy, distinguishes between the impact of these long run fundamentals and …

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A Dual Policy Paradox : Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2005

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the … opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … in the net fiscal impact of trade relative to immigration, and changes in the median voter. The paper also offers …

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...

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A Tariff-Growth Paradox? Protection's Impact the World Around 1875-1997

Clemens, Michael A. - 2001

This paper uses a new database to establish two findings covering the first globalization boom before World War I, the second since World War II, and the autarkic interlude in between. First, there is strong evidence supporting a Tariff-Growth Paradox: protection was associated with fast growth...

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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2001

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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