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Explaining inequality the world round : Cohort size, Kuznet curves, and openness

Higgins, Matthew David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001398132

Explaining inequality the world round : cohorst size, kuznets curves, and openness

Higgins, Matthew David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001399629

Was It Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

reports a set of world tariff facts for the 150 years between 1789 and 1938 that have not been well appreciated. First, tariff … industrially-lagging Europe, and more steeply even in Asia. Furthermore, after world tariff rates rose between 1865 and 1900, they … world tariff facts come from two sources: Stolper-Samuelson -- scarce factors should lobby for protection when exposed to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469042

Was it Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227023

A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2006

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328062

Globalization, de-industrialization and Mexican exceptionalism 1750 - 1879

Dobado, Rafael; Gómez Galvarriato, Aurora; Williamson, … - 2006

"Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those critical 150 years when the economic gap between the industrial core and the primary-product-producing periphery widened to such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to...