November 2005
Jeffrey Williamson papers
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/jwilliam/papers.html
Many of the papers on this page may be downloaded as PDF files. This
format will enable the documents to be viewed or printed with the aid of Adobe Acrobat
Reader. If you do not have a copy of this free viewer, please follow the link to Adobe's
Homepage to download your complimentary copy.
www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
RECENT PAPERS:
India's
Deindustrialization in the 18th and 19th Centuries
with David Clingingsmith
Draft Date: August 2005.
De-Industrialization and Underdevelopment:
A Comparative
Assessment Around the Periphery 1750-1939
Draft Date: December 2004.
Refugees, Asylum
Seekers and Policy in Europe
with Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: July 2004.
The Tariff
Response to World Market Integration in the Periphery Before the Modern Era
Draft Date: June 2004.
What Explains
Cross-Border Migration in Latin America?
with Ximena Clark and Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: June 2003.
The
Political Economy of world Mass Migration: Comparing Two Global Centuries
Presented as The Wendt Distinguished Lecture,
in Washington, D.C., May 11, 2004.
Draft Date: March 2004.
Explaining
U.S. Immigration 1971-1998
with Ximena Clark and Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: December 2002.
RECENT NBER WORKING PAPERS
(Not Yet Published)
NBER Paper #10600:
The Impact of the Terms
of Trade and Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and
Secular Change
with Christopher Blattman and Jason Hwang
Draft Date: June 2004.
NBER Paper #10529:
International Migration
in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
with Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: May 2004.
Presented as the keynote address at the 36th Kiel Week Conference on Labor Mobility and
the World Economy, June 21-22, 2004, Kiel Institute for World Economics, Kiel, Germany.
NBER Paper #9940:
The Terms of Trade and
Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938
with Christopher Blattman and Jason Hwang
Draft Date: August 2003.
NBER Paper #9687:
forthcoming in Cambridge Economic History of Latin America
Globalization in Latin
America Before 1940
with Luis Bertola
Draft Date: May 2003.
Revised Version of NBER Paper #9656:
forthcoming in Eli F. Heckscher 1879-1952: A Celebratory Symposium
Was it
Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938
Draft Date: June 2003.
NBER Paper #9656:
Was it
Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938
Draft Date: April 2003.
NBER Paper #9401:
Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and
Asia before World War II
with Michael A. Clemens
Draft Date: December 2002.
NBER Paper #9161:
Winners and Losers Over
Two Centuries of Globalization
Presented as the WIDER Annual Lecture,
Copenhagen, Sept. 5, 2002.
Also appeared as WIDER Annual Lecture 6, November, 2002.
Draft Date: September 2002.
NBER Paper #9159:
What Fundamentals Drive
World Migration?
with Timothy J. Hatton
Presented as the WIDER Conference on Migration,
in Helsinki, September 27-28, 2002.
Draft Date: September 2002.
NBER Paper #8998:
Where Do U.S. Immigrants
Come From, and Why?
with Ximena Clark and Timothy J. Hatton
Draft Date: June 2002.
NBER Paper #8955:
From Malthus to Ohlin:
Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500
with Kevin H. O'Rourke
Draft Date: May 2002.
NBER Paper #7146:
The Impact of
Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Draft Date: May 1999.
OTHER RECENTLY PRESENTED PAPERS
Not Appearing Above
Who Protected
and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938,
with Christopher Blattman and Michael A. Clemens
Presented at the Conference on the Political Economy of Globalization, Trinity College,
Dublin, August 29-31, 2002.
Draft Date: August, 2002.
Is
Protection Bad for Growth? Will Globalization Last? Looking for Answers in History,
Presented at the 13th IEHA Congress,
Buenos Aires, August 22-26, 2002
Draft Date: June 2002.
HIER WORKING PAPERS
HIER Paper #1842:
Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940:
The Mediterranean Basin (Appendix separate, below).
This paper has been published as "Real Wages and Factor Prices
Around the Mediterranean 1500-1940," Chp. 3 in S. Pamuk and J.G. Williamson (eds.) The
Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950 (London: Routledge 2000) : 45-75.
The tables and figures in this paper have been recently updated. References to them within
the text of the paper have NOT been updated.
The Appendix (with data) for HIER 1842 is frequently revised and has been provided in three ways(click on your choice):
A PDF file of the appendices.
(To download Adobe Acrobat
Reader)
A rich text file which you can view, cut, and paste into the spread sheet of your choice.
A zipped version of the Word Perfect file of the appendices. You will need an unzip program like pkunzip which you can find and download from a number of sites.
HIER Paper #1844:
Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940: Asia.
(Appendix separate, below).
This paper has been published as "Globalization, Factor Prices and Living Standards
in Asia Before 1940," in A.J.H. Latham and H. Kawakatsu (eds.), Asia Pacific
Dynamism 1500-2000 (London: Routledge, 2000): 13-45.
The tables and figures in this paper have been recently updated. References to them within
the text of the paper have NOT been updated.
The Appendix (with data) for HIER 1844 is frequently revised and has been provided in
three ways(click on you choice):
A PDF file of the Appendices.
(To download Adobe Acrobat
Reader)
A rich text file of the Appendices. Rich Text files enable you to view, cut, and paste into the spread sheet of your choice.
A zipped version of the Word Perfect Appendices 1-9. You will need an unzip program like pkunzip which you can find and download from a number of sites..
HIER Paper #1853:
Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940:
Latin America (Appendix separate,
below).
This paper has been published as: "Real Wages, Inequality, and Globalization in Latin
America Before 1940," Revista de Historia Economica, vol. 17, special number
(1999) : 101-142.
The tables and figures in this paper have been recently updated. References to them within
the text of the paper have NOT been updated.
The Appendix (with data) for HIER 1853 is frequently revised and has been provided in
three ways(click on your choice):
A PDF file of the appendices.
A rich text file enables you to view, cut, and paste into the spread sheet of your choice.
A zipped version of the txt files of the paper and excel files of the figures. You will need an unzip program like pkunzip which you can find and download from a number of sites.
HIER Paper #1855:
Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World Before 1940:
What Do they Tell Us about the sources of Growth?
Professor Jeffrey Williamson
November 7, 2005