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{"title":"Always egalitarian? Australian earnings inequality 1870–1910","authors":"Laura Panza,&nbsp;Jeffrey G. Williamson","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12217","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12217","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We document the origins of Australia's egalitarianism by quantifying both the <i>level</i> and <i>trends</i> of earnings inequality during 1870–1910 by constructing social tables for earnings, thus overcoming the constraints imposed by the lack of income, tax and wealth data. We find that earnings inequality was much lower in Australia than in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1870 and that there was no rise in Australian earnings inequality over the half century 1870–1910, but rather a fall. We argue that such findings are driven by a faster skill supply growth relative to demand.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 2","pages":"228-246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48822639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dry bulk shipping and the evolution of maritime transport costs, 1850–2020","authors":"David S. Jacks,&nbsp;Martin Stuermer","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12220","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We provide evidence on the dynamic effects of fuel price shocks, shipping demand shocks and shipping supply shocks on real dry bulk freight rates in the long run. We first analyse a new dataset on dry bulk freight rates for the period from 1850 to 2020, finding that they followed a downward but undulating path with a cumulative decline of 79%. Next, we turn to understanding the drivers of booms and busts in the dry bulk shipping industry, finding that shipping demand shocks strongly dominate all others as drivers of real dry bulk freight rates in the long run. Furthermore, while shipping demand shocks have increased in importance over time, shipping supply shocks in particular have become less relevant.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 2","pages":"204-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12220","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138082002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States, Canada and Australia/New Zealand, 1870–1913: Quantity and quality","authors":"Timothy J. Hatton","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12218","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12218","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper revisits the determinants of emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States, Canada and Australia/New Zealand from 1870 to 1913. In the absence of restrictive immigration policies, the flow of emigration to these destinations responded to economic shocks and trends. Emigrants to Australia and New Zealand were more skilled on average than those heading across the Atlantic, a feature that does not correspond well with skill differentials in the manner predicted by the Roy model. While assisted passages (subsidised fares) increased the volume of emigration to Australia and New Zealand they cannot account for its higher skill content.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 2","pages":"136-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12218","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41389656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Globalisation, migration, trade and growth: Honouring the contribution of Jeff Williamson to Australian and Asia-Pacific economic history—Guest Editor's introduction","authors":"Andrew J. Seltzer","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12216","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12216","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This issue of the <i>Australian Economic History Review</i> honours the many contributions of Jeffrey Gale Williamson. Although Jeff has worked on an extraordinarily wide range of topics, countries and time periods, he is perhaps best known for his work on globalisation and the world economy beyond Europe and the United States. As part of this work, he has written extensively on Australian and Asia-Pacific economic history, the primary remit of this journal. This special issue features papers by several of Jeff's former PhD students and long-time collaborators on topics related to shared research agendas in Asian, Australian and global economic history.</p><p>Jeff Williamson needs little in the way of introduction. He has spent his academic career at Vanderbilt University (1961–1963), University of Wisconsin (1963–1983) and Harvard University (1983–2008). Since 2008 he has been an emeritus professor at Harvard and held a variety of visiting positions across the globe. As a scholar, Jeff is nothing if not prolific. His first paper in a leading economic history journal was published in 1961. He continues to publish frequently in these journals, with little sign of slowing down since his “retirement” in 2008. As of 2021, Jeff has published over 50 articles in the “top five” economic history journals. In addition, he has published over 20 articles in the leading general economics journals and the leading field journals in urban and development economics. He has written or edited 31 books. Over 70 of his works have at least 100 citations on Google Scholar (as of 30 March 2021). His production ranks at or near the very top of the all-time list of economic historians in virtually every meaningful category of measurable research output.</p><p>However, Jeff's contribution to economic history cannot be measured solely by quantity of output. Jeff's research has influenced generations of scholars on such diverse topics as globalisation during the nineteenth century and beyond (Bordo et al., <span>2003</span>; Jacks et al., <span>2011</span>; O'Rourke &amp; Williamson, <span>1994</span>, <span>1999</span>; Taylor &amp; Williamson, <span>1994</span>; Williamson, <span>1996</span>); migration from the Old World to the New World (Hatton &amp; Williamson, <span>1991</span>, <span>1994</span>, <span>1998</span>, <span>2005</span>) and within the United States and United Kingdom (Weiss &amp; Williamson, <span>1972</span>; Williamson, <span>1986</span>); the early development of the United States (Lindert &amp; Williamson, <span>2013</span>; Williamson, <span>1961</span>, <span>1965</span>, <span>1974</span>); the consequences of the industrial revolution for quality of life (Lindert &amp; Williamson, <span>1983</span>; Williamson, <span>1981</span>, <span>1984</span>, <span>1990</span>); the development of various Asia-Pacific economies (Becker et al., <span>1986</span>; Kelley &amp; Williamson, <span>1971</span>, <span>1974</span>; Williamson, <span>1969</span>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 2","pages":"128-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12216","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45454070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Report of the Editor for 2020","authors":"Kris Inwood","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12214","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"2-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12214","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41413916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making Things Economic: Theory and Government in New South Wales, 1788–1863","authors":"Ben Huf","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12213","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"117-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12213","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48746525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Return Migration from Nineteenth Century Australia: Key Drivers and Gender Differences","authors":"Tony Ward","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12212","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12212","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper sheds new light on return migration from Australia to the UK in the latter nineteenth century. It uses data from shipping records, and from a random sample of the 23,000 Australian-born in the 1911 Census of England and Wales. Based on these sources, it estimates some 20% of migrants to Australia returned: higher among the wealthy, but still 12% of semi- and unskilled working class migrants returned. There was a preponderance of women among returnees. From that, and other evidence such as the geographic spread of returnees across England, the paper argues that social networks played critical roles in decisions to return.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"80-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47605939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Australian Treasurers","authors":"John Hawkins","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12210","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"109-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43237419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Made in Chinatown: Chinese Furniture Factories in Australia, 1880–1930","authors":"Peter Gibson","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12211","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"102-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43531546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stopping them Using Our Boats","authors":"Michael Williams","doi":"10.1111/aehr.12207","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aehr.12207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Controlling entry to an island continent proved more complex than the Immigration Restriction Act, 1901 framers imagined. Chinese people had been coming to Australia in numbers since the 1850s and by 1901 had substantial community, family, and economic links with their Pearl River Delta villages, around the colonies and with Hong Kong and Shanghai. Resistance was fought out on the boats themselves; musters were held, documents examined, searches made, and dictation tests administered. Secrecy, fraud, informers, and harassment reduced but did not eliminate communities while also causing governments much embarrassment before this first attempt at halting boat people was abandoned.</p>","PeriodicalId":100132,"journal":{"name":"Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"64-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/aehr.12207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48248237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}