Paul Caruana Galizia Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization : An

Scholars have studied the nineteenth centurys unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the worlds old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as If the Mediterranean labor market really was integrated, then why did globalization affect the Western and Eastern Mediterranean so differently? Why did wage inequality rise in the East while it fell in the rest of the laborabundant periphery? More broadly, was low emigration from Iberia and the East to blame for the Mediterraneans failed integration with the fastexpanding global economy? This groundbreaking research relates these questions to ongoing historical debates on the intensity of intraMediterranean integration in goods and labor, to current heated debates on North African emigration to Europe, and to discussions on European economic integration more generally. | Paul Caruana Galizia Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization : An