contrast, if most of a nation's population falls within the working ages, the added productivity of this group can produce a … examines the relationship between population change and economic development in particular regions of the world: East Asia … of the developing world …

This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There …, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid integration has occurred among the industrial economies, but … the industrial economies, but not in world income inequality as the income gap between the industrial and developing …

predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local trade) and the Total Factor Productivity effect of changing incidence. A … bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The effects are big for the outliers. A …

of China into the world economy may hurt countries that are driven to specialize in production due to HMEs, although …

firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …

our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …