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Global migration and the world economy : two centuries of policy and performance / Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xi, 471 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262083426
  • 9780262083423
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8 22
LOC classification:
  • JV6217 .H38 2005
Contents:
1. Goals and guidelines -- 2. Evolving world migrations since Columbus -- 3. The transition to mass migration : how it all began -- 4. What drove European mass emigration? -- 5. Emigrant origins and immigrant outcomes -- 6. The impact of mass migration on convergence and inequality -- 7. Mass migrations in the poor periphery -- 8. Political debate and policy backlash -- 9. The demise of mass migration and its impact -- 10. Resurrection : world migration since World War II -- 11. World migration under policy constraints -- 12. Where are all the Africans? -- 13. The rise (and fall?) of asylum seeking -- 14. The labor market and fiscal impact of immigration -- 15. Migrant selection, immigrant assimilation, and emigrant brain drain -- 16. Policy and prejudice -- 17. Policy and performance -- 18. World mass migration : past, present, and future.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-447) and index.

1. Goals and guidelines -- 2. Evolving world migrations since Columbus -- 3. The transition to mass migration : how it all began -- 4. What drove European mass emigration? -- 5. Emigrant origins and immigrant outcomes -- 6. The impact of mass migration on convergence and inequality -- 7. Mass migrations in the poor periphery -- 8. Political debate and policy backlash -- 9. The demise of mass migration and its impact -- 10. Resurrection : world migration since World War II -- 11. World migration under policy constraints -- 12. Where are all the Africans? -- 13. The rise (and fall?) of asylum seeking -- 14. The labor market and fiscal impact of immigration -- 15. Migrant selection, immigrant assimilation, and emigrant brain drain -- 16. Policy and prejudice -- 17. Policy and performance -- 18. World mass migration : past, present, and future.

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