Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

Will economic development in poor countries cause less migration, or more? this simple
question has tremendous relevance to the future of migration policy as the world develops …

Understanding dynamic human mobility changes and spatial interaction patterns at different
geographic scales is crucial for assessing the impacts of non-pharmaceutical interventions …

This paper synthesizes insights from new global data on the effectiveness of migration
policies. It investigates the complex links between migration policies and migration trends to …

We study the effects of European immigration to the US during the Age of Mass Migration
(1850–1920) on economic prosperity. Exploiting cross-county variation in immigration that …

Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

Even though human movement and mobility patterns have a high degree of freedom and
variation, they also exhibit structural patterns due to geographic and social constraints …

This article aims to examine some of the difficulties of theory formation in international
migration studies, and to suggest a response. The starting point is an examination of the …

It is useful today to defi ne demography in terms of what demographers actually do.
Following this approach, we would say the fi eld consists of multi-and inter-disciplinary …

Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the
last decade and to the political changes that are taking place. This book gives a unique …