Global migration and the world economy: two centuries of policy and performance

This title presents a uniquely comprehensive look at 200 years of world mass migration by two economists who show how economic history can inform contemporary debate.World mass migration began in the early nineteenth century, when advances in transportation technology and industrial revolutions at home enabledincreasing numbers of people to set off for other parts of the globe in search of a better life. Two centuries later, there is no distant African, Asian, or Latin American village that is not within reach of some high-wage OECD labormarket. This book is the first comprehensive economic assessment of world mass migration taking a long-run historical perspective, including north-north, south-south, and south-north migrations. Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson,both economists and economic historians, consider two centuries of global mobility, assessing its impact on the migrants themselves as well as on the sending and receiving countries." Global Migration and the World Economy" covers two great migration waves: the first, from the 1820s to the beginning of World War I, when immigration was largely unrestricted; the second, beginning in 1950, when mass migration continued to grow despite policy restrictions. Finally, Hatton and Williamson focus on modern experience and show how contemporary debates about migration performance and policy can be informed by a comprehensivehistorical perspective. INDICE: The rise of world mass migration. The fall of world mass migration. The rise of world mass migration. The future of world mass migration. Notes.References. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-262-58277-3
• Editorial: MIT
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 471
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés