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Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s … cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand effects; and the commitment to globalization or policy effects. We …
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The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...
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The late 19th and the late 20th century shared more than simply globalization and convergence. Globalization also seems … Borjas and Wood think that globalization accounted for something like a third to a half of the rise in inequality in America … more than a half of the falling inequality in Europe. It also appears that the inequality trends which globalization …
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primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … in today’s world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization …
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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 …
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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 …
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globalization has raised inequality between nations, but that it has had no clear effect on inequality within nations. This paper … argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple … correlations suggest. Globalization probably mitigated rising inequality between participating nations. The nations that gained the …
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This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...
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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...
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New data now allow conjectures on the levels of real and nominal incomes in the thirteen American colonies. New England was the poorest region, and the South was the richest. Colonial per capita incomes rose only very slowly, and slowly for five reasons: productivity growth was slow; population...
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