1. Migration in Demographic Contexts.
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Arias, Elizabeth
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SEMINARS , *POPULATION , *ECONOMICS ,TOYONAKA Site (Japan) - Abstract
The Seminar of Population and the Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth, held in Toyonaka, Japan from January 7 to 10, 1997, was cosponsored by the Historical Demography Committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and the International Association of Economic History. The seminar objective was to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of findings concerning the relationship between population and economic change in pre-industrial Europe and in non-European regions, both in the past and more contemporary times. Seminar organizers hoped to generate research that would bring us closer to filling existing gaps in our knowledge concerning Malthusian demographic-economic dynamics. Although the role of migration as both a short and long-term adjustment mechanism to population pressures and economic stress has been emphasized in the literature, people still have limited knowledge concerning this mechanism. In the first paper presented at the Session on Migration in Demographic Contexts, Massimo Livi-Bacci posited the hypothesis that nineteenth century European emigration served as an escape route from Mathusian population pressures. In the paper, Migration, Marriage, and Population in the Netherlands, 1500-1900, Jan de Vries considers the role of migration in the patterns of population growth, urbanization, and nuptiality in the Netherlands during the 1500-1900 period.
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- 1997
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