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              Name:  Alan M. Taylor
             Email:  amtaylor at ucdavis.edu
       Institution:  University of California at Davis

         Co-author:  Jeffrey G. Williamson,  Harvard University  

             Title:  Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration  

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                     Department of Economics
                     University of California at Davis
                     One Shield Avenue
                     Davis, CA 95616-8578

          Language:  English
 
          Abstract:
   Between 1870 and 1913 economic convergence among present OECD
members (or an even wider sample of countries) was dramatic,
about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a
half. What were the sources of the convergence? One prime
candidate is mass migration. This paper offers some estimates
which suggest that migration could account for very large shares
of the convergence in labor productivity and real wages; though a
much smaller share in GDP per capita. One might conclude,
therefore, that virtual cessation of convergence in the interwar
period could be partially explained by the imposition of quotas
and other barriers to migration.
 

      Bibliography:  Taylor, Alan M., and Jeffrey G. Williamson.
"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration." European Review of
Economic History, vol.1, part 1 (April 1997).
 

                  Subject:  J
 Geographical Area:  0
      Country/Region:  Comparative
           Time Period:  7, 8
 
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