World Labor Market Integration and Disintegration over the Past Century

本研究的目的是分析 移民、商品贸易和资本市场的演变 连接欧洲和新大陆的国际劳动力市场 在1870年之后的世纪里。 而不是追求 传统的重点是迁移本身，该项目将 而不是集中在工资和就业的发送和接收 地区，确定劳动力市场一体化的情节， 分解以及隔离这些变化的原因。 将特别注意环境的作用 导致劳动力迁移的因素，如爱尔兰马铃薯 城市中心经历的饥荒和环境恶化 在工业革命期间。 该项目还将探索 移徙在分布人口中的作用 应对全球产出冲击，包括 确定各国在工资灵活性方面的经验， 粘性，以及这种经验如何与国际 移民和主导发送的部门的属性 和接收区域。 该项目还将寻找一个 对配额时间和地点的内在解释， 补贴和其他政策干预。 本研究是 重要的是，它将增强我们对 劳动力迁移的动态和环境的影响 移民的变化。

The purpose of this research is to analyze the role of immigration, commodity trade and capital markets on the evolution of an international labor market linking Europe and the New World over the century following 1870. Rather than pursuing the traditional focus on the migrations themselves, the project will focus instead on wages and employment in sending and receiving regions, identifying episodes of labor market integration and disintegration as well as isolating the causes for these changes. Special attention will be given to the role of environmental factors leading to labor force migration such as the Irish potato famine and the environmental decay experienced by urban centers during the industrial revolution. The project will also explore the role of migration in distributing the incidence of unemployment in response to global output shocks, including identifying country experience with wage flexibility and stickiness, and how that experience is related to international migrations and the attributes of sectors which dominate sending and receiving regions. The project will also search for an endogenous explanation for the timing and location of quotas, subsidies, and other policy interventions. This research is important because it will enhance our understanding of the dynamics of labor migration and the impact of environmental change on migration.