Around the European Periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson ()

No 1343, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards. Some, like Ireland, achieved convergence without industrialization. Some, like Italy, underwent a less spectacular catch-up, which was limited to the industrializing North. Some, like Iberia, actually fell back. What accounts for this variety? What role did trade and tariff policy play? What about emigration and capital flows? What about schooling? We offer a tentative assessment of these contending explanations and conclude that globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well, and some badly.

Keywords: Convergence; Education; Globalization; History (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F20 N13 N33 N73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-02
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1343 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
Journal Article: Around the European periphery 1870–1913: Globalization, schooling and growth (1997)
Working Paper: Around the European Periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth (1995)
Working Paper: Around the European periphery 1870-1913: globalization, schooling and growth (1995)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:1343

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.cepr.org/ ... ers/dp.php?dpno=1343

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().