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The role of the taxation of economic rents in classical economics continues to hold the interest of scholars. One lacuna in the study of classical theory concerns the development of classical rent theory, which evolved from the emigration-colonization remedy that was advocated for abating the economic ills of Great Britain of the classical era. The concern of this paper is with the specific aspect of this classical discussion of emigration and colonization, which concerned the theory, and the taxation of economic rent as the classical theory was applied to colonial conditions. For here classical thought underwent a change in emphasis, a transformation often missed by contemporaries who claimed that a substantive aspect of Ricardian theory was at issue. This change in emphasis is clearly brought out in economist Edward Gibbon Wakefield's plan of Systematic Colonization and is forcefully reflected in economist J.S. Mill's great restatement of Ricardian economics some years later. In tracing this development in Ricardian economics, this paper shall consider first the relevant aspects of Wakefield's colonization plan which concerns location rents, the fiscal importance of such rents to his scheme, and the influence this had on classical economics. The concluding section sets out to explain the failure of Ricardo to develop this aspect of his theory since it was general enough to cope with location rents in lieu of differentials in soil fertility as the most important determinant of rent.

In this article we discuss a method of measuring short-term effects of immigration on excess aggregate demand and on the balance of payments with particular application to a full employment, or "over-full employment", economy.
It may well be the case that an apparent shortage of labour in the economy as a whole accompanied by a shortage of goods and services--all symptoms of a creeping inflation--is attributable in the last resort to inept monetary and fiscal policy. It may further be the case that by some small reduction in the existing level of employment the general labour shortage would disappear and the pressure on prices fall away. Whatever the origins of a general shortage of labour, however, the question remains: does the import of labour, like the import of goods, help to curb an incipient inflation by acting to reduce excess aggregate demand ? If net immigration added to the national product without increasing effective demand, or if it increased effective demand in smaller proportion, then, whatever the other economic effects, it would contribute in the short run to a reduction of the pressure of excess aggregate demand however caused.
In the attempt to answer this question we set up, first a general model for estimating the effects of immigration on aggregate net output, on aggregate net expenditure, and on the balance of payments. The model is then applied to the particular case of Jamaican immigrants into the U.K. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the international migration of health personnel to Great Britain. Importance of the number and quality of trained personnel to the evolution of health services; Contribution of overseas to the staffing of the nursing service in Great Britain; Difference between the nurses and doctors from overseas.

The article examines the impact of British overseas investment and emigration during 1870-1914 on its economy. In the international market for factors there were no legal or institutional obstacles to mobility. Here here author explores the possibility of a link between international factor flows and factor price differentials. The impact of other determinants of British overseas investment and emigration with the aid of first simple and then multiple linear regression analysis, have also been examined. The first stage of the investigation involved testing what may be called a naive neo-classical model in which the flow of capital from Britain to a given country of destination is regarded as a function of the returns to capital in the two areas. The migration results are somewhat mixed between countries. Investment was an important explanation of variations in British emigration to Australia and Canada. The change-in-population results for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are not surprising because immigration was so important in the total population change of these countries.

The article examines the properties of the statistical technique used by economists Phyllis Deane and W.A. Cole on their book "British Economic Growth: 1688-1959." The technique is used to estimate the amount of population increase in Great Britain which is attributable to migration. These explanations of the differences in the pattern of demographic evolution in the major industrial counties in Great Britain are largely speculative, and it is not at present possible to check the assumptions on which they are based. The bulk of population increase in the industrial counties is commonly associated with the Industrial Revolution came from natural increase rather than from migration. It is not the defects in the underlying statistics which are the object of concern in this note, if by statistics Deane and Cole mean the raw data which they use. The raw data which Deane and Cole have for each county are estimates of baptisms, marriages, and burials as recorded for each parish in response to census inquiries. Deane and Cole use parish figures supplied for 1781 to provide some interpolation between 1751 and 1801.