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Inequality and schooling responses to globalization forces : lessons from history

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

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Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Asian Development Review 30 (2013) 2, pp. 1-25

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.”...

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Inflationary effect of oil-price shocks in an imperfect market: A partial transmission input–output analysis

Wu, Libo; Li, Jing; Zhang, ZhongXiang - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 2, pp. 354-369

This paper aims to examine the impacts of sectoral price control policies on oil price pass-through into China … that restrict the functioning of a price pass-through mechanism during oil-price shocks. Using the models of both China and … the US, we separate the impact of price control from that of other factors leading to China's price stickiness under oil …

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Globalization, de-industrialization and Mexican exceptionalism 1750 - 1879

Gómez Galvarriato, Aurora; Dobado, Rafael; Williamson, … - 2007

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When, where, and why? : early industrialization in the poor periphery 1870 - 1940

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

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After Columbus : explaining the global trade boom 1500 - 1800

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

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Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 4, pp. 51-72

The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have many things in common. Both periods recorded fast growth, convergence, and labor-market integration between OECD members. Both periods witnessed intense debate about who gained and who lost from globalization. Furthermore, the earlier period saw a...

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Migration and urbanization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Handbook of Development Economics

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Latin American growth-inequality trade-offs : the impact of insurgence and independence

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

"Did independence push Latin America down a growth-inequality trade-off? During the late colonial decades, the region completed two centuries of growth unmatched anywhere and inequality reached spectacular heights. During the half century after insurgency and independence, inequality fell...

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Industrial catching up in the poor periphery 1870 - 1975

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

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