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There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First, there are the world history … scholars like Andre Gunder Frank who attach globalization 'big bang' significance to the dates 1492 (Christopher Colombus …
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globalization has raised inequality between nations, but that it has had no clear effect on inequality within nations. This paper … argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple … correlations suggest. Globalization probably mitigated rising inequality between participating nations. The nations that gained the …
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The late 19th and the late 20th century shared more than simply globalization and convergence. Globalization also seems … Borjas and Wood think that globalization accounted for something like a third to a half of the rise in inequality in America … more than a half of the falling inequality in Europe. It also appears that the inequality trends which globalization …
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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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primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … in today’s world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization …
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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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Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s … cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand effects; and the commitment to globalization or policy effects. We …
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"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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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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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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