Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

Emigration first increases and then decreases as a country experiences economic
development. This inverted U-shaped, cross-sectional relationship between emigration and …

We argue that market forces shaped the geographic distribution of upper-tail human capital
across Europe during the Middle Ages, and contributed to bolstering universities at the dawn …

Several factors influenced the composition of migrants in the early 20th century, including
World War I, the Literacy Act of 1917, and the implementation of strict immigration quotas …

This chapter focuses on the economic analysis of what has been called the age of mass
migration, 1850–1913, and its aftermath up to 1940. This has captured the interest of …

Despite the significant attention paid to the current consequences of globalization for
migration behavior, there are few historical accounts of the effect of commodity market …

This paper proposes a multi-country model of international migration in which college-
educated workers choose destination countries, preferred types of visas, and the optimal …

This paper studies how economic, educational, political, geographic, and demographic
factors are associated with immigrant skill selection in South Africa and the USA to test the …

This paper studies the distribution of foreigners across counties of the province of São
Paulo, Brazil, in 1872. The analysis stresses the historical importance of policies that …

The Age of Mass Migration came to an end in the interwar period with new American
immigration restrictions, but did this end affect some potential migrants more than others? I …