Global migration and the world economy : two centuries of policy and performance
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press ,
c2005
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Goals and guidelines
- 2. Evolving world migrations since Columbus
- 3. The transition to mass migration : how it all began
- 4. What drove European mass emigration?
- 5. Emigrant origins and immigrant outcomes
- 6. The impact of mass migration on convergence and inequality
- 7. Mass migrations in the poor periphery
- 8. Political debate and policy backlash
- 9. The demise of mass migration and its impact
- 10. Resurrection : world migration since World War II
- 11. World migration under policy constraints
- 12. Where are all the Africans?
- 13. The rise (and fall?) of asylum seeking
- 14. The labor market and fiscal impact of immigration
- 15. Migrant selection, immigrant assimilation, and emigrant brain drain
- 16. Policy and prejudice
- 17. Policy and performance
- 18. World mass migration : past, present, and future