Revisiting Italian Emigration Before the Great War: A Test of the Standard Economic Model

Pier Giorgio Ardeni () and Andrea Gentili

Working Papers from Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna

Abstract: Among the many studies on migration before the Great War, Italy has received little attention, with a few notable exceptions and without providing a convincing explanation of its economic and demographic determinants. Standard neoclassical approaches explain emigration as driven by relative wages, relative employment rates and the stock of previous emigrants. We aim at improving on earlier contributions by covering all migration outflows from Italy to the most significant destination countries and by adopting the most consistent and up-to-date econometric approaches. As it turns out, the standard model is not fully confirmed and a more nuanced analysis is needed.

JEL-codes: F22 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10
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