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

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dc.creator Hatton, Timothy J.
dc.creator Williamson, Jeffrey G.
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:11:12Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:11:12Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20570
dc.identifier ppn:464454328
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20570
dc.description 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 publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility towards new immigrants of lower quality, public assessment of the impact of those immigrants on a deteriorating labor market, political participation of those impacted, and, as a triggering mechanism, the sudden shocks to the labor market delivered by the 1890s depression, the Great War, postwar adjustment and the great depression. The paper documents the secular drift from very positive to much more negative immigrant selection which took place in the first global century after 1820 and in the second global century after 1950, and seeks explanations for it. It then explores the political economy of immigrant restriction in the past and seeks historical lessons for the present.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1304
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject F22
dc.subject O1
dc.subject J1
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject mass migration
dc.subject globalization
dc.subject immigration policy
dc.subject Internationale Arbeitsmobilität
dc.subject Einwanderungsrecht
dc.subject Migrationspolitik
dc.subject Geschichte
dc.subject Vereinigte Staaten
dc.subject Welt
dc.title International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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