RHE 2015 n. 02 otoño

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Archivo Abierto Institucional de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: RHE V. 33 Nº 2 otoño 2015

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Dácil Juif. Skill Selectivity in Transatlantic Migration: The Case of Canary Islanders in Cuba

Vicente Pinilla , Gema Aparicio. Navigating in Troubled Waters: South American Exports of Food and Agricultural Products, 1900–1950

Paul Caruana-Galizia. Why Did the Mediterranean Fail to Globalise? Real Wages and Labour Market Integration in the 19th Century

Nicolás Bonino-Gayoso - Antonio Tena-Junguito. Uruguay and the First Globalization: On the Accuracy of Export Performance,1870–1913

Javier Moreno-Lázaro. The Stock Exchange, the State and Economic Development in Mexico, 1932-1976

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Contraportada [Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Año XXXIII, September 2015, n. 2]
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, 2015-09)
The Stock Exchange, the State and Economic Development in Mexico, 1932-1976
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, 2015-09) Moreno Lázaro, Javier; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
In this article I examine the history of the Mexican Stock Exchange from the end of the Revolution until 1975, under the hypothesis that it did not carry out its pertinent functions in corporate financing but was rather an economic and political instrument of the government. Due to state intervention and the deficient definition of property rights, its functioning was completely anomalous except during this period. The article represents a first step in the study of the role of the stock exchange in Latin American corporatist economic models.
Why Did the Mediterranean Fail to Globalise? Real Wages and Labour Market Integration in the 19th Century
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, 2015-09) Caruana-Galizia, Paul
Can low emigration rates from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic economy partly explain its relative economic decline over the 19th century? Time series tests of real wage integration show that the Maghreb and Eastern Mediterranean exported enough labourers to experience labour market integration, while the emigration rates of the northern Mediterranean, were not high enough. As the latter group comprised most of the region’s economic weight, the Mediterranean as a whole was held back. The wage gap between the first two groups and the Atlantic economy was the highest, but journey costs relative to wage levels were roughly similar across the Mediterranean. The incentive-vs.-cost arithmetic favoured emigration from the Maghreb and Eastern Mediterranean.
Navigating in Troubled Waters: South American Exports of Food and Agricultural Products, 1900–1950
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, 2015-09) Pinilla, Vicente; Aparicio, Gema; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
The objective of this article is to offer empirical evidence regarding the behaviour of the exports and relative prices of agricultural and food products from South America between 1900 and 1950. These were years of intense turbulence, which profoundly affected the countries of the region, generating a deep pessimism concerning the potentiality of the export-led development model. This study offers a new quantitative base to analyse the evolution of exports of agrifood products from South America between 1900 and 1938. The paper also offers a series for the evolution of the terms of trade in the region which takes into account in its construction, for the first time, the relative weights of South American exports of the distinct agricultural products.
Skill Selectivity in Transatlantic Migration: The Case of Canary Islanders in Cuba
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, 2015-09) Juif, Dacil Tania
The skill composition of European migrants to the New World and their contribution to the human capital and institutional formation in destination countries are popular topics in economic history. This study assesses the skill composition of 19th century transatlantic migrants to Cuba. It finds that nearly half of the European immigrants originate from the Spanish province of the Canary Islands, which displays the lowest literacy and numeracy rates of Spain. Even within this province, those who left belonged to the least skilled section of the population. By promoting the influx of a cheap and poorly educated white workforce that replaced African slaves on their sugar estates, large landowners in Cuba contributed to the perpetuation of high economic, political and social inequality.
Preliminares [Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Año XXXII, september 2015, n. 2]
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, 2015-09)
Uruguay and the First Globalization: on the accuracy of export performance, 1870-1913
(2015-09) Bonino Gayoso, Nicolas; Tena Junguito, Antonio; Willebald Remedios, Henry Francisco; Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (España)
In order to understand Uruguay's long-run economic evolution it becomes crucial to interpret its export performance during the First Globalization. The lack of accuracy of official figures, especially official prices used, calls for an adjustment of Uruguayan export series. We have used empirical evidence to test the accuracy of quantities and values of export records, first, according to import partners' records and, second, according to international market prices. Results show a general undervaluation of official export values during the period along with severe distortions in the registers caused by transit trade. We reconstructed new Uruguayan export f.o.b values and an export price index which present a more unstable and less dynamic export evolution than that of neighbouring Argentina.

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