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Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2016

This paper revisits demographic dividend issues after almost 2 decades of debate. In 1998, David Bloom and I used a convergence model to estimate the impact of demographic-transition-driven age structure effects and calculated what the literature has come to call the “demographic dividend.”...

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Demographic and economic pressure on emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...

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World migration in historical perspective : four big issues

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015

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Comment on "Trade liberalization in a globalizing world" by Riccardo Faini

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Lessons of experience : Annual World Bank Conference on …, (pp. 229-233). 2005

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Oil Price Shocks and Their Short- and Long-Term Effects on the Chinese Economy

Tang, Weiqi; Wu, Libo; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2009

economies. However, there has been a lack of empirical study of this kind on China and other developing countries. This paper … attempts to fill this gap by answering how and to what extent oil-price shocks impact China’s economy, emphasizing on the price … differentiated price control policies for materials and intermediates on the one hand and final products on the other hand in China …

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Convergence and divergence : human capital deepening, inequality, demographic events along the Asian Rim

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Choice, growth and development : emerging and enduring …, (pp. 73-115). 1996

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What fundamentals drive world migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

Governments in the OECD note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and keeping out others. Economists appear to be well armed to advise governments since they are responsible for an impressive literature that examines the characteristics of...

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Trade, growth, and distribution in Southeast Asia, 1500 - 1940

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian economics, (pp. 22-42). 2015

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Trade and poverty : when the Third World fell behind

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

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The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938

Blattman, Christopher - 2003

The contending fundamental determinants of growth -- institutions, geography and culture --exhibit far more persistence than do the growth rates they are supposed to explain. So, what exogenous shocks might account for the variance around those persistent fundamentals? The terms of trade seems...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468757

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