Transport Capacity Management and Transatlantic Migration, 1900–1914

Keeling, Drew

doi:10.1016/s0363-3268(07)25005-0

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“…With the shift from sail to steam technology on the Atlantic, the cost of migration fell dramatically over the nineteenth century (Keeling 1999). The declining cost of migration, coupled with rising real incomes in the newly industrializing European periphery, relaxed the financial constraints on households that had previously been too poor to pay for passage to the New World.…”

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Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky

Boustan

Eriksson

2012

American Economic Review

340

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During the age of mass migration (1850–1913), one of the largest migration episodes in history, the United States maintained a nearly open border, allowing the study of migrant decisions unhindered by entry restrictions. We estimate the return to migration while accounting for migrant selection by comparing Norway-to-US migrants with their brothers who stayed in Norway in the late nineteenth century. We also compare fathers of migrants and nonmigrants by wealth and occupation. We find that the return to migration was relatively low (70 percent) and that migrants from urban areas were negatively selected from the sending population. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”——Emma Lazarus (1883)1

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Section: Contemporary and Historical Literature On Migrant Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky

Boustan

Eriksson

2012

American Economic Review

340

131

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“…A steamship ticket to New York cost £5 or $25 (Keeling, 1999). We further assume that the migrant would have lost 20 days of work ($12, assuming a 300-day work year) during the voyage and the resettlement period.…”

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Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration

Abramitzky

Boustan

Eriksson

2013

Journal of Development Economics

112

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Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth and in expected inheritance by birth order, gender composition of siblings, and region. We find that wealth discouraged migration in this era, suggesting that the poor could be more likely to move if migration restrictions were lifted today. We discuss the implications of these historical findings to developing countries.

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“…The first wave of the late 1840s was associated with famine and revolution in Europe and the second wave with the shift in ocean transport from sail to steam. The nominal cost of passage on the North Atlantic route remained roughly constant (Keeling, 1999), although it declined relative to average wages. But the transition from sail to steam cut typical transit times from 5 weeks in the 1840s to 12 days by 1913 and to 9 days by the late 1960s.…”

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International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets

Chiswick¹,

Hatton²

2003

Globalization in Historical Perspective

146

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Transport Capacity Management and Transatlantic Migration, 1900–1914

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration

International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets

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