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Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron; García-Jimeno, Camilo; Robinson, James A. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 4, pp. 534-564

Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively … across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We … investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …

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Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a ‘political replacement effect.’ Innovations often erode elites’ incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political...

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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological progress and technology adoption. In standard endogenous growth models, which feature a strong scale effect, an increase in the supply of labor encourages technological...

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The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...

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Pay and employment determination in Britain : what are labour "contracts" really like?

Oswald, Andrew J.; Turnbull, Peter J. - In: Oxford review of economic policy 1 (1985) 2, pp. 80-97

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Unemployment benefit and the supply of labour

Oswald, Andrew J. - In: Greek economic review 3 (1981) 1, pp. 33-45

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