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Demographic Dividends Revisited
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2016
This paper revisits demographic dividend issues after almost 2 decades of debate. In 1998, David Bloom and I used a convergence model to estimate the impact of demographic-transition-driven age structure effects and calculated what the literature has come to call the “demographic dividend.”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995441
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Demographic and economic pressure on emigration out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001
Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391489
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001
Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265634
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752104
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466110
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Oil Price Shocks and Their Short- and Long-Term Effects on the Chinese Economy
Tang, Weiqi; Wu, Libo; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2009
economies. However, there has been a lack of empirical study of this kind on China and other developing countries. This paper … attempts to fill this gap by answering how and to what extent oil-price shocks impact China’s economy, emphasizing on the price … differentiated price control policies for materials and intermediates on the one hand and final products on the other hand in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208269
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What fundamentals drive world migration?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003
Governments in the OECD note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and keeping out others. Economists appear to be well armed to advise governments since they are responsible for an impressive literature that examines the characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279309
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Explaining U.S. Immigration, 1971-98
Clark, Ximena - 2016
Clark, Hatton, and Williamson develop and estimate a model explaining the level and country-source composition of United States immigration since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios of source country income, education, and demographic structure, as well as relative inequality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749540
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
This paper documents a stylized fact: the Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current economic crisis will serve only to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004966280
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The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938
Blattman, Christopher; Hwang, Jason; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
The contending fundamental determinants of growth -- institutions, geography and culture --exhibit far more persistence than do the growth rates they are supposed to explain. So, what exogenous shocks might account for the variance around those persistent fundamentals? The terms of trade seems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214578