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Fall 2022

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 37, Number 3

Categories: Fall 2022 | Immigration | Labor Force

Mechanisms of Mass Migration: An Essay in Methodological Individualism

John Alcorn, Trinity College

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise37(3),2022,61-79MechanismsofMassMigration:AnEssayinMethodologicalIndividualismJohnAlcorn*TrinityCollegeAbstractThispaperisatonceacomplementtoeconometricstudiesofcausesofmigrationandacontributiontomethodologicalindividualism.Itopensuptheblackboxandidentifiesconcatenationsoffine-grainedmechanismsofmassmigration.Keymechanismsaretriggers,chains,socialpsychology,coalitionformation,andabutterflyeffect.ThemassmigrationofItalianstotheUnitedStatesandthebacklashoftheGreatRestrictionillustratethesecausalprocessesandraisequestionsforfurtherresearch.JELCodes:J61,N31,N32,N33,N34,P10Keywords:GreatEmigration,freemovementoflabor,immigrationrestrictionsI.ChainMigrationA.AFrameworkofMechanismsinChainMigrationChainmigrationisacausalprocessinwhichmigrationhasaspillovereffectondecisionsbyothersaboutwhethertomigrate.Figure1representssomeofthemechanismsinvolvedinchainmigration(cf.Gambetta1998).Behaviorisexplainedbydesiresandby(beliefsabout)opportunities.Somemechanismsthatshapedesiresand(beliefsabout)opportunitiesareidentified.Arrowsindicaterelationsofcauseandeffect.Aplussignindicatesthatacauseincreasesthevariablethatitshapes,whereasaminussignindicatesthatacausedecreasesthevariablethatitshapes.*IthankJonElster,DiegoGambetta,andTimothyHattonforhelpfulcomments.

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Title	Mechanisms of Mass Migration: An Essay in Methodological Individualism
Authors/Creators:	John Alcorn, Trinity College
Year:	2022
Volume:	37
Number:	3
Pages:	61 - 79
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	Great Emigration, free movement of labor, immigration restrictions

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Alcorn, John / 2022. "Mechanisms of Mass Migration: An Essay in Methodological Individualism." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 37(3): 61-79.