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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"
Taylor, Alan M. - 2013
Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …
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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2022
The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …
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