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International Migration and Economic Growth: The Swedish Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

John A. Tomaske
John A. Tomaske
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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The interest of economists in the nature and causes of economic growth has focused attention on demographic phenomena. For the economic historian, this has meant a reexamination of the historically unprecedented international population movements of the nineteenth century and their relationship to the process of economic growth.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1965 , pp. 696 - 699
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1965

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References

1 See, for example: Cairncross, Alexander K., Home and Foreign Investment (Cambridge [Engl.]: The University Press, 1953)Google Scholar; Easterlin, Richard A., “Influences on European Overseas Emigration Before World War One,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. IX, No. 1 (Apr. 1961)Google Scholar; Kuznets, Simon and Rubin, Ernest, Immigration and the Foreign Born (New York: N.B.E.R., Occasional Paper No. 46, 1954)Google Scholar; Thomas, Brinley, ed., Economics of International Migration (London: Macmillan, 1958)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Also see references in fn. 2.

2 Migration and Economic Growth (Cambridge [Engl.]: The University Press, 1954)Google Scholar; “Migration and International Investment,” in Economics of International Migration; and International Migration and Economic Development; Trend Report and Bibliography (New York: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1961)Google Scholar.

3 The basic sources of historical data for Sweden are: Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stockholm, Wages, Cost of Living and National Income in Sweden 1860–1930 (3 vols.; London: P. S. King, 1933)Google Scholar; Lindahl, Olof, The Gross Domestic Product of Sweden, 1861–1951 (Stockholm: Konjunkturinstitutet, Meddelanden Serie B:20, 1956)Google Scholar; Centralbyran, Statistiska, Historical Statistics of Sweden (3 vols.; Stockholm, 1959)Google Scholar.

4 Migration and Economic Growth, pp. 32–34; International Migration and Economic Development, pp. 3–16.

5 For example, no allowance is made for changes in stocks other than livestock. Estimates of building and construction are very weak prior to 1896. See: Lindahl, pp. 28, 37.

6 Lag correlation coefficients are concentrated in the range ±. 30 and are not significant at the 5 per cent level.

7 The relevant lag correlation coefficients are concentrated in the range ±. 30 and are not significant at the 5 per cent level.

8 The lag correlation coefficients of Swedish real annual earnings in manufacturing on United States estimates of real wages have a maximum value of +.57. However, Swedish real agricultural wages appear to have an inverse association with United States real wage estimates with lag correlation coefficients reaching a maximum value of −.63.