Abstract
The present paper investigates how much a simple economic theory of policy can contribute to an understanding of the distinctive nineteenth-century international migration policy...[by providing] an account of why the nineteenth-century world economy was so open to labour movements. Section II outlines a political economy of international migration based upon factor income maximization factor endowments income distribution and constitutions. Section III shows how the model fits a large component of nineteenth-century experience and Section IV focuses on the at first sight anomalous policy of the most important destination for European immigration the United States. (EXCERPT)
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