Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization

An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-48630-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2776 g

Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market really was integrated, then why did globalization affect the Western and Eastern Mediterranean so differently? Why did wage inequality rise in the East while it fell in the rest of the labor-abundant periphery? More broadly, was low emigration from Iberia and the East to blame for the Mediterranean's failed integration with the fast-expanding global economy? This ground-breaking research relates these questions to ongoing historical debates on the intensity of intra-Mediterranean integration in goods and labor, to current heated debates on North African emigration to Europe, and to discussions on European economic integration more generally.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caruana Galizia, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations 3. Historical Context 4. Explaining Mediterranean Emigration 5. The Globalization of Trade and Labor Markets 6. Emigration and Wage Inequality 7. Global migration and wage convergence 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Caruana Galizia is a Marie Curie Early-Career Fellow in the Institute of Economic History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.