Skill Selection and American Immigration Policy in the Interwar Period
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Keywords
immigration policy; skill selection; quotas; United States; Bremen; interwar period;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- K37 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Immigration Law
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- N34 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2018-07-09 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2018-07-09 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-INT-2018-07-09 (International Trade)
- NEP-KNM-2018-07-09 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-MIG-2018-07-09 (Economics of Human Migration)
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