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 …

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 …

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 …

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

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time … for 10 in the so-called greater Atlantic economy: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …