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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024

We model a rent-seeking contest among two "identity ideologues", differentially located along a uni-dimensional identity continuum, and a "mercenary", who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity-relevant good ("religion") and an identity-irrelevant good...

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Union decline in Britain

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...

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Employer preferences and social policy : business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...

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Religious riots and electoral politics in India

Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015

societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on … election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … states in India over a 21 year period from 1981-2001. We suggest a new instrument that draws upon the random variation in the …

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Enfranchisement, political participation and political competition: evidence from colonial India

Cassan, Guilhem; Lakshmi Iyer; Ali Mirza, Rinchan - 2020

franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that …

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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2024

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer …

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Water scarcity and social conflict

Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2021

Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to...

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Diversity and conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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The economics of labor market intermediation : an analytic framework

Autor, David H. (contributor) - 2008

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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'Living wage', class conflict and ethnic strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel (contributor) - 2008

We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...

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