FATHERLESS AND FRIENDLESS - FACTORS INFLUENCING THE FLOW OF ENGLISH EMIGRANT SERVANTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: GRUBB, F
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700010275
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 85-108
• 关键词: MIGRATION; immigrants; MARKET

摘要

The incidence of fatherlessness among English emigrant servants was measured using contracts recorded in London between 1682 and 1686. This incidence was relatively high and systematically related to the servant's age, gender, county of origin, occupation, and father's occupation. Many emigrant servants were youths who had lost their fathers and lacked alternative support in England. Fatherlessness helps explain why the short-run supply of emigrant servants was relatively inelastic, and why some unskilled servants continued to migrate to America in spite of competition from slave labor.