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 …

Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …

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 …

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …