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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002
The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469549
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Inequality Within Countries is Falling : Underreporting-Robust Estimates of World Poverty, Inequality and the Global Distribution of Income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512057
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Latin American Growth-Inequality Trade-Offs : The Impact of Insurgence and Independence
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
Did independence push Latin America down a growth-inequality trade-off? During the late colonial decades, the region completed two centuries of growth unmatched anywhere and inequality reached spectacular heights. During the half century after insurgency and independence, inequality fell steeply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462972
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Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463345
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History without Evidence : Latin American Inequality since 1491
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463881
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Latin American Inequality : Colonial Origins, Commodity Booms, or a Missed 20th Century Leveling?
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy have held the pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, and that it's the Iberian colonists' fault. Thus, modern analysts see today a more unequal Latin America...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457751
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Globalization in Latin America Before 1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003
globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … massive de-globalization during the decades of lost growth' between the 1820s and the 1870s. Next, it documents what happened … World War I, while it fell thereafter. The correlation between globalization and inequality is likely to have been causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469011
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009
This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463862