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Economic Theory and Immigration Policy*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Mabel F. Timlin
Mabel F. Timlin*
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The University of Saskatchewan
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This paper has been written with only limited objectives in mind; the subject has too many ramifications throughout the fields of population and economic theory to make possible even rudimentary analysis of all its aspects. The first section will give consideration to the usefulness of optimum theory and general economic theory in the formulation of immigration policies; the second section will give a brief outline of a few of the hypotheses suggested by theory and of some of the quantitative inquiries which would be useful in testing hypotheses. Two great fields of inquiry must for the most part be left out; the systematic discussion of the relations between immigration and emigration and of the relations between population increase and wage theory cannot be undertaken here. Either one of them, attacked singly, would be probably too extensive for a paper of this length. Certain aspects of both will however enter briefly into other phases to be discussed below.

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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , August 1950 , pp. 375 - 382
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1950

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This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association at Kingston, Ontario, June 10, 1950.

References

1 The definition of “standard of living” is attended by a number of difficulties which, for lack of space and considerations of continuity in exposition, cannot be discussed here. For some of these, see Isaac, Julius, Economics of Migration (New York, 1947), pp. 197–200.Google Scholar

2 Gottlieb, M., “Optimum Population, Foreign Trade and World Economy” (Population Studies, vol. III, 09, 1949, pp. 151–69).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 See footnote 4, pp. 157-8. This footnote contains a number of references to and some discussion of the literature in this field.

4 Ibid., p. 159.

5 Ibid., p. 166.

6 Ibid., p. 163.

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11 Ibid., p. 20.

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13 London, 1949. See p. 108.

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