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The international mobility of labor also is no greater than in the past. With the
exception of labor flows within the European Union, international labor markets
remain highly segmented, even for highly skilled workers. Indeed, the present age can
be sharply contrasted to the huge wave of migration that occurred in the second half
of the nineteenth century, when tens of millions of Europeans migrated to the
Americas, North and Southern Africa, and Australia; and similar numbers of Chinese
and Indians migrated throughout the western hemisphere. Between :c and :,:,,
annual migration from Europe alone varied between six hundred thousand and :.,
million individuals (Cable :,,,).
The qualityof the interaction with the global economy also varies across the
developing world. Most low-income countries exhibit a pattern of trade with the
West that has little changed over the last hundred years; for the most part these
countries continue to export primary commodities and import manufacturing goods.
Data from Africa suggest how little interaction with the world economy has changed;