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Exceptional Argentina Di Tella, Glaeser and Llach - Thomas Piketty

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Figure 17. Migration <strong>and</strong> population growth: Canada, Australia <strong>and</strong> <strong>Argentina</strong><br />

14000<br />

12000<br />

10000<br />

Natural growth of original + migrant pop<br />

Net migrants, accumulated<br />

8000<br />

5283<br />

6725<br />

1870 Population<br />

6000<br />

4000<br />

1424<br />

3288<br />

3692<br />

2000<br />

3781<br />

1161<br />

1883 1648<br />

0<br />

Canada <strong>Argentina</strong> Australia<br />

Sources: as in Figure 17.<br />

Figure 18. Migration <strong>and</strong> population growth: Canada, Australia <strong>and</strong> <strong>Argentina</strong><br />

250,0<br />

Real wages, Britain 1905=100<br />

200,0<br />

150,0<br />

1870s<br />

100,0<br />

1920s<br />

1920s<br />

1870s<br />

1870s<br />

1920s<br />

1920s<br />

Canada<br />

<strong>Argentina</strong><br />

Australia<br />

USA<br />

50,0<br />

1870s<br />

0,0<br />

-1,0% -0,5% 0,0% 0,5% 1,0% 1,5% 2,0% 2,5% 3,0%<br />

Net immigration rate, annual<br />

Sources: as in Figure 17 <strong>and</strong> Williamson (1999).<br />

Faster population growth meant that <strong>Argentina</strong>'s per capita natural wealth endowment was<br />

being diluted more rapidly than in Australia or Canada. The estimates by the World Bank in<br />

its survey of the composition of wealth across countries for the year 2000 combined with the<br />

actual population in the period under consideration give us some notion of the endowmentdiluting<br />

effect of population growth. In 1870 <strong>Argentina</strong>'s wealth per capita in the form of

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