Explaining UK wage inequality in the past globalisation period, 1880–1913

Betrán, Concha; Ferri, Javier; Pons, María A.

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“…But this effect is only observed in the presence of a range of other variables that represent skill biased technical change, capital intensity, structural change, and a range of variables reflecting labour market institutions. These results are qualitatively similar to those obtained from a CGE analysis of the trend in the skill premium for UK economy from 1880 to 1913 (Betrán and Pons 2010).…”

Section: The Impact Of Migrationsupporting

confidence: 86%

The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

Hatton¹

2010

SSRN Journal

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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

Hatton¹

2010

SSRN Journal

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“…But this effect is only observed in the presence of a range of other variables that represent skill‐biased technical change, capital intensity, structural change and a range of variables reflecting labour market institutions. These results are qualitatively similar to those obtained from a CGE analysis of the trend in the skill premium for UK economy from 1880 to 1913 (Betrán et al , 2010).…”

Section: The Impact Of Migrationsupporting

confidence: 86%

The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

Hatton

2010

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…Exploiting the reduction of inflows from the 1920s immigration quotas, Xie (2017) finds that a one percentage-point decline in the foreign-born share at the county level increases manufacturing wages by 2 percent -once again, an effect that cannot be explained by compositional changes. Studies of national time series have estimated that the effect of mass migration was to widen skill premiums in the United States and narrow them in Europe (Anderson 2001;Betrán and Pons, 2004), results that are consistent with the effects on inequality found in general equilibrium models (Betrán et al 2010).…”

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International Migration in the Atlantic Economy 1850–1940

Hatton¹,

Ward²

2018

Handbook of Cliometrics

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This chapter focuses on the economic analysis of what has been called the age of mass migration, 1850 to 1913, and its aftermath up to 1940. This has captured the interest of generations of economic historians and is still a highly active area of research. Here we concentrate on migration from Europe to the New World as this is where the bulk of the literature lies. We provide an overview of this literature focusing on key topics: the determinants of migration, the development of immigration policy, immigrant selection and assimilation, and the economic effects of mass migration as well as its legacy through to the present day. We explain how what were once orthodoxies have been revisited and revised, and how changes in our understanding have been influenced by advances in methodology, which in turn have been made possible by the availability of new and more comprehensive data. Despite these advances some issues remain contested or unresolved and, true to cliometric tradition, we conclude by calling for more research.

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Explaining UK wage inequality in the past globalisation period, 1880–1913

Cited by 11 publications

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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

International Migration in the Atlantic Economy 1850–1940

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