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Demographic Dividends Revisited
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2016
effects are based on accelerating human capital accumulation induced by demand-side quality–quantity trade-offs versus a co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995441
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Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists : Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871
Panza, Laura - 2017
Compared with its nineteenth century competitors, Australian GDP per worker grew exceptionally fast, about twice that of the US and three times that of Britain. This paper asks whether the fast growth performance produced rising inequality. Using a novel data set we offer new evidence supporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955952
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Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists : dividing up a fast-growing frontier pie 1821-1871
Panza, Laura; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011666871
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Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists : Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871
Panza, Laura - 2017
Compared with its nineteenth century competitors, Australian GDP per worker grew exceptionally fast, about twice that of the US and three times that of Britain. This paper asks whether the fast growth performance produced rising inequality. Using a novel data set we offer new evidence supporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455265
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Distributional Impact of Commodity Price Shocks: Australia over a Century
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2013
This paper studies the distributional impact of commodity price shocks over the both the short and very long run. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting developing countries over the periods 1865-1940 and 1960-2007. A single equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877254
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Distributional Impact of Commodity Price Shocks: Australia over a Century
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2013
This paper studies the distributional impact of commodity price shocks over both the short and very long run. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting developing countries over the periods 1865-1940 and 1960-2007. A single equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684566
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Distributional Impact of Commodity Price Shocks: Australia over a Century
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
This paper studies the distributional impact of commodity price shocks over both the short and very long run.  Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting developing countries over the periods 1865-1940 and 1960-2007.  A single equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159026
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Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
trade volatility since 1901. It identifies two major price shock episodes before the recent mining-led boom and bust. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004966283
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Demographic Dividends Revisited
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Asian Development Review 30 (2013) 2, pp. 1-25
effects are based on accelerating human capital accumulation induced by demand-side quality–quantity trade-offs versus a co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691433
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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press
commodities (agricultural or mineral products) while rich countries exported manufactured products. In Trade and Poverty, leading … trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. The world rapidly became global between the early nineteenth century and World … War I, and the global trade boom occurred simultaneously with rising economic divergence between industrial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905538