EUROPEAN MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF AGGREGATE LABOR SUPPLY AND DEMAND.

This paper examines the economic factors which partially explain the movements in this flow of labor from Europe to the U.S. in the period 1870-1914. Aggregate labor demand and supply functions are discussed and combined into a migration model. The paper offers both an examination of an important pe...

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Publicado en:Review of Economics & Statistics Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 272 - 280
Autor principal: Wilkinson, Maurice
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: MIT Press Aug70
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