This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in
history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and …

This chapter provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration
since the Industrial Revolution. We focus principally on long-distance migration to rich …

Description: New York: Columbia University Press,[2019]| Series: Columbia studies in
international and global history| Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers …

Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused
anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little …

While the pre-1914 mass migrations have been widely studied, the related pattern of
emigrants' remittances is still largely untouched. This article aims at filling this gap by …

This article examines the economic consequences of Japanese colonialism in Taiwan,
Korea, and Manchuria between 1910 and 1945 and compares Japanese policies with those …

Southeast Asia was, and continues to be, a major destination of mass longdistance labor
migrations. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries labor migration from China …

Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West
but barely touched upon 'the rest'. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and …

This paper develops a new vent-for-surplus model to analyze Southeast Asia's two phases
of rapid export-led growth. During the first, from 1870 to 1929, international trade provided …

Living Standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015
examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia …