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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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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...

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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and demographic … fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world. The paper … drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration? Is it …

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Growth, Distribution and Demography : Some Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

experience in the Old World, the New World last century and a half …

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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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