abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … in today’s world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization …

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 …

The world economy has become more unequal over the last two centuries. Since within- country inequality exhibits no … ubiquitous trend, it follows that virtually all of the observed rise in world income inequality has been driven by widening gaps … between nations, while almost none of it has driven by widening gaps within nations. Meanwhile, the world economy has become …

will be pleased to hear that it probably accounted for more than a third of the rising inequality in the New World and for … produced prior to World War I were at least partly responsible for the interwar retreat from globalization. Will the world …

of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

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