Chart: The great doubling: The supply of workers to the globalized economy more than doubled between the end of the 1980s and the end of the 1990s | Economic Policy Institute

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The great doubling: The supply of workers to the globalized economy more than doubled between the end of the 1980s and the end of the 1990s

	Developed economies	Developing economies	China	India	Ex-Soviet Union	Total
Before	460	1,000	0	0	0	0
After	460	1,000	760	440	260	0

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Source: Richard Freeman (2004, 2007) estimate of the number of economically active persons in each country, from International Labor Organization data.

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