全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w14448
来源ID	Working Paper 14448
	Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
	Louis Putterman; David N. Weil
发表日期	2008-10-30
出版年	2008
语种	英语
摘要	We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality in the world today. Indicators of early development such as early state history and the timing of transition to agriculture have much better predictive power for current GDP when one looks at the ancestors of the people who currently live in a country than when one considers the history on that country's territory, without adjusting for migration. Measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of a country's current population do not predict income inequality as well as measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of the current population's ancestors. An even better predictor of current inequality in a country is the variance of early development history of the country's inhabitants, with ethnic groups originating in regions having longer histories of agriculture and organized states tending to be at the upper end of a country's income distribution. However, high within-country variance of early development also predicts higher income per capita, holding constant the average level of early development.
主题	International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w14448
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572123
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Louis Putterman,David N. Weil. Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality. 2008.

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