TY  - JOUR
AU  - Williamson,Jeffrey G.
TI  - Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12553
PY  - 2006
Y2  - October 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12553
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12553.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeffrey G. Williamson
350 South Hamilton Street #1002
Madison, WI 53703
Tel: 608-441-0023
Fax: 608-204-0783
E-Mail: jwilliam@fas.harvard.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -