Huff, Gregg; Caggiano, Giovanni - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2007
This article uses new data sets to analyze labor market integration between 1882 and 1936 in an area of Asia stretching … Indians and Chinese to Southeast Asia, gave rise to both an integrated Asian labor market and a period of real wage … convergence. Integration did not, however, extend beyond Asia to include core industrial countries. Asian and core areas, in …