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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2019
Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th Century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th Century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...
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Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium
Cravino, Javier - 2017
We study how international trade affects manufacturing employment and the relative wage of unskilled workers when goods and services are traded with different intensities. Manufacturing trade reduces manufacturing prices worldwide, which reduces manufacturing employment if manufactures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455178
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently …, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de-industrialization … divergence between core and periphery. Third, the boom and its de-industrialization impact was only part of the story; growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464805
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Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions : The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence
Desmet, Klaus - 2018
A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China …. One shortcoming of such a theory is its exclusive focus on producers. We show that once we incorporate the incentives of … factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds, industrialization no longer depends on market size, but on spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452993
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461848
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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrializatiion : The Geography of Growth Take-Offs
Baldwin, Richard E. - 1998
phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472347
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-up Growth?
Romer, Paul M. - 2010
Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antràs, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461566
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International Trade and Structural Change
Ben-David, Dan - 1997
In light of the substantial movement towards trade liberalization during the postwar period, this paper attempts to determine if, and when, countries experienced statistically significant changes in the paths of their export-GDP and import-GDP ratios. We find that: (1) most trade ratios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472718
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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth
Bloom, David E. - 2002
Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470002