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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Rosés, Joan R. - 2007

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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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...

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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...

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History without Evidence : Latin American Inequality since 1491

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

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Growth, Distribution and Demography : Some Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1997

forces thought to have an impact on inequality can be offset or reinforced" by demography, skill supply and globalization …. This paper assesses the role of globalization and" demography via mass migrations. Second, why has it taken economists so …

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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

Burnard, Trevor - 2017

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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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...

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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

Jacks, David S. - 2009

, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008

W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...

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Globalization, Convergence and History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1995

years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …

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