Capital Constraints And European Migration To Canada: Evidence From The 1920s Passenger Lists
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immigration; canada;JEL classification:
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2010-02-13 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MIG-2010-02-13 (Economics of Human Migration)
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