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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U.S. wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change,...

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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...

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The "Virtues" of the Past : Education in the First Hundred Years of the New Republic

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2003

able to close the gap until the last quarter of the twentieth century. For much of its history U.S. education was spurred … educational institutions from Europe but added to them in ways that served to enhance competition and openness. The virtues of …

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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002

concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of …

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The Shaping of Higher Education : The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998

The American university was shaped in a formative period from 1890 to 1940 long before the rise of federal funding, the G.I. Bill, and mass higher education. Both the scale and scope of institutions of higher education were greatly increased, the research university blossomed, states vastly...

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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998

The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus here is on the reasons for the high school movement' in American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly...

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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"

Taylor, Alan M. - 1994

Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...

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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor : The United States in Historical Perspective

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2013

This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, a more nuanced picture is that occupations "hollowed out": the share of "middle-skill" jobs -...

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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

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 … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …

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