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World migration in historical perspective : four big issues
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
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Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 4, pp. 51-72
The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have many things in common. Both periods recorded fast growth, convergence, and labor-market integration between OECD members. Both periods witnessed intense debate about who gained and who lost from globalization. Furthermore, the earlier period saw a...
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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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Inequality and schooling responses to globalization forces : lessons from history
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
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Inequality and schooling responses to globalization forces : lessons from history
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003389326
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor …
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466110
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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004
Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...
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A dual policy paradox: why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch … explanations for the between-country variance in voter anti-trade and anti-migration attitude, and links this to the fundamentals …
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What fundamentals drive world migration?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003
migration on both sending and receiving regions. Economists are, however, much less well armed to speak to the determinants of … demographic fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world …. The paper is organized around three questions: How do the standard theories of migration perform when confronted with …
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