Globalization, agricultural markets and mass migration: Italy, 1881–1912

Gray, Rowena; Narciso, Gaia; Tortorici, Gaspare

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2019.06.001

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“…This paper also adds to the literature on the Age of Mass Migration (Abramitzky and Boustan 2017;Hatton and Ward 2019). Despite the recent growth in the literature, advances in understanding the determinants of migration in this context have been more limited (c.f., Gray et al 2019;Karadja and Prawitz 2019;Spitzer 2021;Spitzer and Zimran 2022). We advance the literature by studying the effect of a sudden shock to the home economy on emigration.…”

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International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

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Zimran³

2020

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International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

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Zimran³

2020

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“…45‐65). Data from the same publication have been used by Faini and Venturini (1994a), Hatton and Williamson (1998), Del Boca and Venturini (2005), Gray et al (2019), in their studies on the determinants of Italian migration in the late 19th‐ early 20th‐century.…”

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Home Sweet Home: the Effect of Sugar Protectionism on Emigration in Italy, 1876‐1913

Ciccarelli

Dalmazzo

Vuri

2021

Papers in Regional Science

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Protectionist policies are often considered or even implemented as a reaction to increasing globalization. This is not new in history. This paper uses the introduction of import duties on sugar in the late nineteenth century Italy to measure the impact of protectionism on migration outflows at the time of the first globalization. Both for climate reasons and the nature of the soil, the cultivation and processing of sugar beets was geographically concentrated in a small area, leading de facto to a regional protectionist policy. Our theoretical model illustrates how a tariff that favours local producers may affect residents' incentives to migrate abroad. The predictions of the model are tested with the synthetic control method which uses the variation in sugar cultivation across areas to estimate the effect of interest. Our results show that protectionism effectively reduced the relative incentive to migrate away from sugar-producing areas.

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“…Recent work conducted by Gray, Narciso, and Tortorici (2019) demonstrated the negative effects of goods market segmentation on international labor mobility. However, rare studies have focused on interregional labor mobility in one country, where geographical constraints have significantly smaller effects.…”

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Effect of goods market segmentation on labor mobility: Evidence from China

Guo

Sun

2022

Review Development Economics

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This study empirically investigates the effects of goods market segmentation on interregional labor mobility using data from National Population Surveys in China. The findings reveal that a one-standard deviation increase in the goods market segmentation index reduces interprovincial migration by 4.0%. Restraining interregional trade and improving industrial specialization are the two mechanisms at work. Further analysis indicates that the restrictive effect of goods market segmentation is greater on highly educated laborers and the labor flows from poorer to richer regions. The heterogeneous analysis also implies that migrants are more concerned about educational resources and consumption diversity.

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Globalization, agricultural markets and mass migration: Italy, 1881–1912

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

Home Sweet Home: the Effect of Sugar Protectionism on Emigration in Italy, 1876‐1913

Effect of goods market segmentation on labor mobility: Evidence from China

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