The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas:Â A Labour Market Approach
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- Allen, Robert C. & Murphy, Tommy E. & Schneider, Eric B., 2012. "The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labor Market Approach," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(4), pages 863-894, December.
- Tommy E Murphy & Robert C Allen & Eric Schneider, 2011. "The colonial origins of divergence in the Americas: a labour market approach," Working Papers 11013, Economic History Society.
- Robert C. Allen & Tommy E. Murphy & Eric B. Schneider, 2011. "The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labour Market Approach," Working Papers 402, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
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Keywords
Economic history; Real wages; Standard of living; Labour market; Population; Great Divergence; North America; Latin America;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N11 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- N31 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2011-07-27 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2011-07-27 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LAM-2011-07-27 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LTV-2011-07-27 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-SEA-2011-07-27 (South East Asia)
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