The Impact of Immigration: Comparing Two Global Eras

Timothy J. Hatton; Jeffrey G. Williamson

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.04.009

The Impact of Immigration: Comparing Two Global Eras

Timothy J. Hatton^*, Jeffrey G. Williamson

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This paper asks whether history can inform modern debate about immigration's impact on high wage economies. It examines the relationship between migration's labor market impact and capital flows before 1914, the first global era. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital mobility today, in the second global era. It then explores the links between these economic relationships, welfare burdens, and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in immigration's impact in the two global eras, and thus on policy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	345-361
Number of pages	17
Journal	World Development
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.04.009
Publication status	Published - Mar 2008

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