TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williamson,Jeffrey G.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - October 2006; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and rising skill scarcity contributed to the high school revolution in the US. Rising unskilled scarcity also contributed to the 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 should pay more attention to history
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w12553
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12553
ER  -