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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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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … in todayâ€™s world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization …

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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 …

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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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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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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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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...

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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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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...

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Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse After 1950?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2002

This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World War II, while associated with slow growth thereafter. The paper offers some explanations for the sign switch by controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic...

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