Betrán, Concha; Pons, Maria A. - In: Scandinavian Economic History Review 61 (2013) 2, pp. 140-166
This paper compares past and present globalisation with an aim to highlighting the different factors that drove wage inequality then and those which are doing so now. We have constructed a ratio of wage inequality for 15 countries in the first period of globalisation (1870-1913) and the...