Timothy J. Hatton, Professor, The Australian National University and University of Essex, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Professor, Harvard University and University of Wisconsin. This paper is a much-revised version of the Sixth H.W. Arndt Memorial Lecture given by Williamson at The Australian National University on 19 March 2009. It is based on our collaborative work that has appeared in two books, The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Effects (1998) and Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance (2005). It also draws on a recent paper ‘Vanishing Third World Emigrants?’NBER Working Paper 14785 (2009).
Emigration in the long run: evidence from two global centuries
Article first published online: 29 OCT 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8411.2009.01238.x
© 2009 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2009 Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
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Hatton, T. J. and Williamson, J. G. (2009), Emigration in the long run: evidence from two global centuries. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 23: 17–28. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8411.2009.01238.x
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Timothy J. Hatton, Professor, The Australian National University and University of Essex, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Professor, Harvard University and University of Wisconsin. This paper is a much-revised version of the Sixth H.W. Arndt Memorial Lecture given by Williamson at The Australian National University on 19 March 2009. It is based on our collaborative work that has appeared in two books, The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Effects (1998) and Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance (2005). It also draws on a recent paper ‘Vanishing Third World Emigrants?’NBER Working Paper 14785 (2009).
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