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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Roses, Joan R. - 2010

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...

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Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse after 1950?

Clemens, Michael A.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World War II, while associated with slow growth thereafter. The paper offers some explanations for the sign switch by controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic...

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Retirement, Early Retirement and Disability : Explaining Labor Force Participation after 55 in France

Behaghel, Luc - 2014

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France

Blanchet, Didier - 2016

France stands out as a country with a low labor force attachment of older workers. A reversal in the trend of French …

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Disability and Social Security Reforms : The French Case

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at "normal" retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French workers...

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Workers' Employment Rates and Pension Reforms in France : The Role of Implicit Labor Taxation

Blanchet, Didier - 2019

Over the last fifteen years, France has experienced a reversal of older workers' labor force participation and …

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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

W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...

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Globalization, Convergence and History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2022

years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …

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Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy Since Federation

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - 2010

Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems to have dealt with the volatility better. Why? This paper explores Australian terms of trade volatility since 1901. It identifies two major price shock episodes before the recent...

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