TY - JOUR
T1 - Education, globalization and catch-up
T2 - Scandinavia in the swedish mirror
AU - O’Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj
AU - Williamson, Jeffrey G.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research underlying this paper was supported by National Science Foundation grants SES-90-21951 and SBR-92-23002. We are grateful for the excellent assistance of Bill Collins; to Leandro Pra dos for sharing his schooling data; to Christian Riis for sharing his Norwegian emigration data: to Jonas Ljungberg. Gunnar Persson and Lennart Schon for generous help in all ways; and to all the eco nomic historians who tried their best to keep us from taking too many liberties with Scandinavian his tory when a version of this paper was presented at Lund them. of course, are responsible where we have very helpful referees of this Review. This paper is an abbreviated version of a much longer discussion paper, with detailed appendices, which is available upon request from Williamson at Harvard, fax 617-495·7730, e-mail jwilliam@fas.harvard.edu. The full reference to this discussion paper is: Open Economy Forces and Late nineteenth Century Scandinavian Catch-Up. Harvard University, revised, July 1995.
PY - 1995/9/1
Y1 - 1995/9/1
N2 - In a previous paper in this Review, we argued that the vast majority of Sweden’s spectacular catch-up on the late nineteenth century leaders was due to what today would be called globalization forces. Sweden’s catch-up on Britain and the United States between 1870 and World War I was due mostly to mass migration, international capital flows and trade. This paper asks two additional questions. First, how important was schooling to this performance compared with open economy forces? The answer is »modest«. Second, can the Swedish explanation be extended to the rest of Scandinavia? The answer is »yes«.
AB - In a previous paper in this Review, we argued that the vast majority of Sweden’s spectacular catch-up on the late nineteenth century leaders was due to what today would be called globalization forces. Sweden’s catch-up on Britain and the United States between 1870 and World War I was due mostly to mass migration, international capital flows and trade. This paper asks two additional questions. First, how important was schooling to this performance compared with open economy forces? The answer is »modest«. Second, can the Swedish explanation be extended to the rest of Scandinavia? The answer is »yes«.
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U2 - 10.1080/03585522.1995.10415905
DO - 10.1080/03585522.1995.10415905
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84951577455
SN - 0358-5522
VL - 43
SP - 287
EP - 309
JO - Scandinavian Economic History Review
JF - Scandinavian Economic History Review
IS - 3
ER -