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Demographic Dividends Revisited
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.”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995441
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391489
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208269
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001297891
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901194
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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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The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938
Blattman, Christopher; Hwang, Jason; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
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/10013214578
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Trade and poverty : when the Third World fell behind
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011 - Online-Ausg.
When the Third World fell behind -- The first global century up to 1913 -- Biggest Third World terms of trade boom ever? -- The economics of Third World growth engines and dutch diseases -- Measuring third world de-industrialization and Dutch disease -- An Asian de-industrialization illustration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292567
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321035