What Fundamentals Drive World Migration

By Tim Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2002

478 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica (2009, unknown): “Hatton and Williamson (2005) also note that substantial South-South migration is not unprecedented, “when those 50 million Europeans left home before 1914, there were at the same time far more than 50 million who left China and India for jobs elsewhere in the periphery.”
• Female Migration: A Way Out of Discrimination (2015, unknown): “A few earlier studies already recognized the distinction between migration intentions and actions (e.g. Cai et al., 2014; Chort, 2014; Dustmann and Okatenko, 2014; Hatton and Williamson, 2002), but data limitations generally prohibited a separate analysis of the different stages.”
• Workers' Remitt ances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance (2005, unknown): “Estimates suggest that migrant stocks in developed countries increased from 3.1 percent in 1965 to 4.5 percent in 1990 (Hatton and Williamson 2002); in all likelihood this trend has continued through the 1990s.”
• Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage (2016, unknown): “This may be due to the fact that most of agricultural countries are also poor, which usually have limited out-migration flows due to poverty constraints (Pedersen et al., 2008; Hatton and Williamson, 2002 and 2011).”
• Cultural barriers in migration between OECD countries (2011, unknown): “There is an extensive literature on the theoretical determinants of international migration (see Ghatak and Levine (1996), Borjas (1999a) and Hatton and Williamson (2005) for surveys).”
• Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement (2009, unknown): “Moreover, the concave pattern of GDP per capita is in line with the migration “hump” hypothesis (see Hatton and Williamson, 2005).14 c.”
• Seeking asylum in Europe (2004, unknown): “24 This is a much larger figure than those estimated for non-asylum migration streams, where figures of 2 or 3 per 100 of the stock are more typical (Hatton and Williamson 2002)”
• International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants (2005, unknown): “More recently, Clark, Hatton and Williamson (2002) and Karemera, Oguledo and Davis (2000) both focus on the fundamentals explaining immigrant inflows into the United States by country of origin in the last decades.”
• International Migration and the Developing World (2010, unknown): “See, for example, Borjas (1987), Karemera et al. (2000), Volger and Rotte (2000), Hatton and Williamson (2002), Pedersen et al. (2004); and Gallardo-Sejas, Pareja, Llorca-Vivero, and MartinezSerrano (2006).”
• Does Development Reduce Migration? (2014, unknown): “Hatton and Williamson (2005b) find that three of the biggest forces shaping the migration transition worldwide since 1850 are “poverty constraints on the move in poor sending countries; the size of the young adult share in sending and receiving country populations; and the size of the foreign-born…”