Migration Decisions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany

Wegge, Simone A.

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“…6 6 Hatton and Williamson (1998, 35), who document the change in the ratio of real wages in sending and receiving countries over the period 1850 to 1913, report similar results. …”

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“…Not having the funds pay for their passage and unable to borrow against their future earnings, workers signed indenture contracts that were sold in America to cover the cost of their passage. Simone Wegge's (1998a, b) work on ‘chain migration’ is not specifically about capital market constraints, but her finding that emigrants from the German principality of Hesse‐Cassel were strongly influenced by the presence of family and friends in America is evidence that, in the mid‐nineteenth century, access to immediate support was an important determinant of who would migrate.…”

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International migration with capital constraints: interpreting migration from the Netherlands to Canada in the 1920s

Armstrong

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2012

Canadian J of Economics

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An inability to borrow affected migration from Europe to North America. This capital constraint is formalized with a life‐cycle model, where agents jointly choose how much to save, the optimal period to finance migration, and whether to migrate. Using a life‐cycle model we show that preference for the home country, the period of adjustment after arrival, and the direct cost of migration affect the savings of migrants, age at migration, and who migrates. These results are discussed in light of wages in Canada and the Netherlands, and the characteristics of Dutch immigrants drawn from ship passenger manifests. Capital constraints delayed migration and help explain the large wage gap between the Netherlands and Canada. JEL classification: J61, N32, N34

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“…6 6 Hatton and Williamson (1998, 35), who document the change in the ratio of real wages in sending and receiving countries over the period 1850 to 1913, report similar results. …”

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International migration with capital constraints: interpreting migration from the Netherlands to Canada in the 1920s

Armstrong

Lewis

2012

Canadian J of Economics

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“…L'information (Hägerstrand, 1957). Cependant, son application s'est principalement limitée à l'explication de la décision de migrer, c'est-à-dire à l'attraction particulière de groupes d'individus pour des destinations spécifiques (Fertig, 1998 ;Palloni et al, 2001 ;Wegge, 1998). Du point de vue du lieu d'origine, il a été démontré que la connaissance des conditions dans un lieu d'accueil potentiel, essentiellement par le biais des réseaux familiaux, explique grandement pourquoi certains franchissent le pas.…”

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Rester ou repartir ? Une analyse des usages de la ville par les migrants dans la Genève des années 1837-1843

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2013

Annales De Démographie Historique

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Si les études historiques récentes mettent en évidence d’importants mouvements migratoires avant la révolution industrielle, elles soulignent également leur nature majoritairement temporaire. Pour l’essentiel des immigrants, l’arrivée dans une ville n’est qu’une étape dans un parcours parfois sinueux qui est déterminé à la fois par leurs attentes et les conditions d’accueil qu’ils rencontrent sur leur chemin. Cette étude, qui s’appuie sur les permis de séjour de la ville de Genève entre 1837 et 1843, vise à rendre compte, d’une part, de la diversité des stratégies d’utilisation de la ville et, d’autre part, de l’influence de certaines caractéristiques socioéconomiques dans la durée d’implantation en ville. À cette fin, l’étude du risque de départ est une technique très parlante qui permet de distinguer des groupes d’individus qui arrivent en ville avec un projet préétabli, d’autres qui, connaissant mal leur environnement, comptent essentiellement sur leur bonne fortune pour trouver de quoi y subsister quelques temps. Les premiers peuvent compter sur une forte solidarité entre pairs, alors que les seconds sont souvent tributaires de leur capital économique et social pour faire leur place.

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“…According to Simone Wegge, however, emigration was even more widespread in regions with higher levels of hereditary inequality. 70 Indeed, as Derouet has demonstrated, framing the problem solely in terms of hereditary equality or inequality obscures the most important point. In Roman law, all of the properties were subject to inheritance, and the legator could share them as he saw fit, on the condition that no share fell below a minimum threshold.…”

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Eighteenth-Century Matrimonial Strategies and Emigration to the Americas: The House of Berrio in La Bastide Clairence

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2013

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Prior to the massive wave of emigration to South America during the nineteenth century, inhabitants of rural communities in the western French Pyrenees emigrated in large numbers to Saint-Domingue and other Caribbean islands. This article examines the connections between migratory movements and the organization of these communities into “house societies” (Lévi-Strauss) in which the continuation of the “house” was paramount and no new “houses” could be founded. Adopting a microhistorical approach, it analyzes the complex role of inheritance rights in the decision to emigrate and reconstructs the networks that made emigration possible. Unlike the traditional belief that sons were forced to leave because they were deprived of their share of inheritance, the family unit fully supported the emigration of its younger members. This article also argues that emigration simultaneously resulted from and undermined the “house system.”

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Migration Decisions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany

Cited by 9 publications

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International migration with capital constraints: interpreting migration from the Netherlands to Canada in the 1920s

International migration with capital constraints: interpreting migration from the Netherlands to Canada in the 1920s

Rester ou repartir ? Une analyse des usages de la ville par les migrants dans la Genève des années 1837-1843

Eighteenth-Century Matrimonial Strategies and Emigration to the Americas: The House of Berrio in La Bastide Clairence

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