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2023

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12726
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204
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Overview

Timothy J. Hatton is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on migration, labor dynamics, and political participation. Hatton's work is identified within the fields of sociology and political science, political science and international relations, anthropology, gender studies, and demography.

Themes frequently addressed in Hatton's publications include migration and labor dynamics, Australian history and society, migration, refugees, and integration, colonialism, slavery, and trade, migration, ethnicity, and economy, migration, health and trauma, and electoral systems and political participation.

Hatton has contributed to prominent academic venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Political Economy
  • Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Economica

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hatton demonstrate a focus on migration policies and public opinion, as well as the intersections of democracy and social outcomes. These include:

  • Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy (2020), published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience (2020), published in European Journal of Political Economy
  • Asylum recognition rates in Europe: Policies and performance (2022), published in European Journal of Political Economy

Hatton often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font, Giovanni Facchini, Max Friedrich Steinhardt, and Minhee Chae.

Best Publications

  • The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact

    Timothy J Hatton;Jeffrey G Williamson

  • Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance

    Timothy J. Hatton;Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • WHAT FUNDAMENTALS DRIVE WORLD MIGRATION

    Timothy J. Hatton;Timothy J. Hatton;Timothy J. Hatton;Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets

    Barry R. Chiswick;Timothy J. Hatton

  • Immigrant Selection in the OECD

    Michèle V. K. Belot;Timothy J. Hatton

  • Explaining US Immigration 1971-1998

    Ximena Clark;Timothy J Hatton;Jeffrey G Williamson

  • Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

    Timothy J. Hatton;Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?*

    Timothy J. Hatton

  • Seeking asylum in Europe

    Timothy J. Hatton

  • Immigration and Inter‐Regional Mobility in the UK, 1982–2000

    Timothy J. Hatton;Massimiliano Tani

  • A model of UK emigration, 1870-1913

    TJ Hatton

  • Long run trends in the heights of European men, 19th-20th centuries

    Timothy J. Hatton;Bernice E. Bray

  • Explaining trends in UK immigration

    Timothy J. Hatton;Timothy J. Hatton

  • What Drove the Mass Migrations from Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century

    Timothy J. Hatton;Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • Migration and the International Labor Market 1850-1939

    T. J. Hatton;Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • Immigration, public opinion and the recession in Europe

    Timothy J. Hatton

  • The age of mass migration

    T.J. Hatton;Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • Refugees and asylum seekers, the crisis in Europe and the future of policy

    Timothy J. Hatton

  • A Model of U.K. Emigration, 1870-1913

    Timothy J. Hatton

  • The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact.

    Jeffrey G. Reitz;Timothy J. Hatton;Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • Working papers: International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets

    Barry R. Chiswick;Timothy J. Hatton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey G. Williamson
Jeffrey G. Williamson Harvard University
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley
Barry R. Chiswick
Barry R. Chiswick George Washington University
Michael A. Shields
Michael A. Shields Monash University
Paul Frijters
Paul Frijters London School of Economics and Political Science
Ian Preston
Ian Preston University College London
Christian Dustmann
Christian Dustmann University College London
Joan Costa-Font
Joan Costa-Font London School of Economics and Political Science
Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University

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