GINS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sub-Saharan Africa, Immigration, Surplus Labour
13 Dec 2016
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Done locally, it only lowers wages affecting wage-earners. Overall, it alters across borders the distribution of skills and the potential for entreprenurialship. International migration, the 3rd axis of global economic integration, matters as it influences labour markets and innovation capacities. It has significant political consequences as the benefits and costs of migration are unevenly distributed among the locally-born population. In theory, free movement of people would equalize wages worldwide, erasing the mobility advantage of holders of capital. Xviii to early xx century: united kingdom disposed of 1/3 of its population to its dominions in order to industrialize. Similarly, france, germany, italy, netherlands, etc. shipped between 20% and 25% of their working population as migrants to us, latin america and their own african colonies. In asia, china has similar policies in its region of influence; taiwan, manchura, tibet, xi-hiang, mongolia, etc. goal was 33% (english industrialization model) Famines, wars, revolutions, programs and government policy to export surplus labour engineered the.
