前往美国的沉睡巨人：大规模移民时代丹麦的土地不平等和移民问题

IF 2.6 1区历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101525

Nina Boberg-Fazlić , Markus Lampe , Paul Sharp

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摘要

获得土地对移民决定的作用是什么？我们考虑了 1868 年至 1908 年间丹麦的情况，当时有大量人口移居美国。我们利用 1784 年至 1807 年间丹麦土地改革对全国各地无地劳工阶层产生不同影响这一事实，并使用详细的教区级数据、移民协议书、人口普查和土地登记册来说明，土地分配更不平等的地区移民人数更多。我们证明了这一影响是巨大的：Theil 指数每增加一个标准差，就意味着移民人数比平均值增加 18%。

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The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration

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The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration

What is the role of access to land for the decision to emigrate? We consider the case of Denmark between 1868 and 1908, when a large number of people left for America. We exploit the fact that the Danish agrarian reforms between 1784 and 1807 had differential impacts on the class of landless laborers around the country, and use detailed parish-level data police protocols of emigrants; population censuses and land registers to show that areas with a more unequal distribution of land witnessed greater emigration. We demonstrate a sizable effect: a one standard deviation increase in the Theil index implies an increase in emigration of 18 percent above the mean.

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2.50

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期刊介绍： Explorations in Economic History provides broad coverage of the application of economic analysis to historical episodes. The journal has a tradition of innovative applications of theory and quantitative techniques, and it explores all aspects of economic change, all historical periods, all geographical locations, and all political and social systems. The journal includes papers by economists, economic historians, demographers, geographers, and sociologists. Explorations in Economic History is the only journal where you will find "Essays in Exploration." This unique department alerts economic historians to the potential in a new area of research, surveying the recent literature and then identifying the most promising issues to pursue.