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A. Identify and evaluate the factors that contributed to real wage convergence between the Old World and the New between (roughly) 1870-1914.
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B. Emigration within the Atlantic community between 1870 and 1914 can be explained by a common framework and by reference to a surprisingly small number of economic and demographic variables. Discuss.
