The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

Hatton, Timothy J.

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“…Instead, we argue that the relationship between individuals and the land per se was likely the root cause that prompted those who (among the agricultural classes) were most weakly attached to the land to react quickly through overseas emigration and prevented those who were economically invested and contractually tied to the land from responding with the same ease. 4 This finding is consistent with prior work, which has identified attachment to the land as a factor limiting emigration (e.g., Hatton 2010;Hatton and Williamson 1998;Valsecchi 2014). Ours is the first evidence, to our knowledge, that it can also hinder short-term adjustment in the face of shocks.…”

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“…To more easily see the differential reaction, Figure 7 estimates the event study specification of equation ( 4) using an indicator for being in a district above the sample median in terms of the agricultural day labor share as the interaction variable x i . 54 Panels (a) and (c), which use the Ellis Island data, show that neither 51 Hatton (2010), Hatton andWilliamson (1998), andVianello (2014) also argue that attachment to the land might have hindered migration in general.…”

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

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Tortorici²,

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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Tortorici²,

Zimran³

2020

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“…The contributions of Hatton (2010) and of Fishback et al (2010) provide exemplary examples of the growing maturity of cliometrics. Fishback et al provide a detailed survey of cliometric research into US income maintenance programmes, highlighting the patchwork, state and local level provision.…”

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Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count

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Oxley²

2011

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Cliometrics has been with us for half a century. At least it was in 1960 that the word itself was coined by Stanley Reiter to describe a style of quantitative history that linked clio, the muse of history with measurement or more succinctly metrics. Three years earlier a joint session of the Economic History Association and the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Income and Wealth was held in Williamstown, Massachusetts and many practitioners date the birth of cliometrics to those meetings. The task issue of the Journal of Economic History in 1957 was headed the integration of economic theory and economic history and contained some of the fruits of the pioneers' discussions and a summary of the proceeding by Simon Kuznets.Regular workshops of cliometricians date from 1960 and the discipline laid strong foundations over the following decade, most especially in the USA. Fogel (1964) published Railroads and Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, which stimulated intensive methodological debate among historians worldwide. Very quickly the British Economic History Society commissioned a paper by Fogel 'The new economic history: its findings and methods' which was published in the Economic History Review in 1966. The 'new economic history' and 'econometric history' were at that time alternate labels for cliometrics.The explicit connecting of economics with economic history was the hallmark of cliometrics as it developed in the USA. Reiter himself was a mathematical economist whose work included collaboration with economic historian Hughes to produce a paper, 'The First 1945 British Steamships' (Hughes andReiter, 1958) published by the Journal of the American Statistical Association in 1958. That paper, along with a celebrated paper of two economists, Alfred Conrad and John Meyer, 'The economics of slavery in the Antebellum South', which also appeared in 1958 in the Journal of Political Economy are often associated with the birth of cliometrics (Conrad and Mayer, 1958). In a wider context the growth of cliometrics drew on the longer established traditions of quantitative economic history, and on concurrent developments in the social sciences and computing during the 1960s.

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The simple analytics of optimal growth with migration

2014

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This paper investigates the economic consequences of migration in the Ramsey-type dynamic optimizing context. In contrast to Hazari and Agro (J Econ Dyn Control 28:141-151, 2003) conclusions, we show that migration unambiguously reduces the per-capita domestic consumption growth, whereas necessarily raises the long-run per-capita consumption of domestic residents when production is "sufficiently" reactive to capital changes. Our findings are consistent with several empirical studies and simulation analyses, suggesting that changes in technological adjustment in response to migrants inflows may take some years to translate into productivity, generating some crowding out effects. The gains for natives are likely to materialize in the long run when the specialization of natives adjusts, firms invest in capital and adopt appropriate technologies. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

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References 55 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

Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count

The simple analytics of optimal growth with migration

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