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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
Albouy, David - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2006
In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) evaluate the effect of property rights institutions on national income using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers as an instrument for the risk of capital expropriation. Returning to their original sources, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818079
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789919
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Flexibility and protectionism. Swedish trade in sugar during the early modern era
Rönnbäck, Klas - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2006
Sugar was of the utmost importance for the development of a transatlantic trade during the early modern era. This working paper explores the impact of institutions and institutional changes of the colonial trade in sugar focusing on one country on the European semi-periphery, namely Sweden....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771157
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Ireland : the "promised land" of Malthusian theory?
Ross, E.B. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684094
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Ireland : the "promised land" of Malthusian theory?
Ross, Ross, E.B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730602
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Ireland : the "promised land" of Malthusian theory?
ROSS, E.B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442240
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Romer’s Charter Cities v. Colonization, Imperialism, and Colonialism: A General Characterization
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
brutal images of failed (neo)colonialism. This essay characterizes colonization, imperialism, and colonialism in order to …, and colonialism. The characterization finds that while colonization, imperialism, and colonialism share strong historical …-city model is voluntary participation of all players. Colonization, imperialism, and colonialism were forceful and repressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919771
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Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run
Jerven, Morten - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2011
Until recently, most economists work on Africa has taken 1960 as the starting point because data on national income and similar derivates are only available back to this point. To date, the quantitative literature on Africa has made heroic leaps of faith, asserting causal relationships across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150643
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The impact of national ICT qualification systems on companies' recruitment practices : an Anglo-German comparison
Steedman, Hilary; Wagner, Karin - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 235-249
"The aim of this study is to analyse and assess the contrasting national skills policies associated with ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) skill supply in Britain and Germany. We also aim to examine the impact of these strategies on firms and to assess the utilization of skills at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010963791
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The impact of national ICT qualification systems on companies' recruitment practices : an Anglo-German comparison
Steedman, Hilary; Wagner, Karin - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 2/3, pp. 235-249
"The aim of this study is to analyse and assess the contrasting national skills policies associated with ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) skill supply in Britain and Germany. We also aim to examine the impact of these strategies on firms and to assess the utilization of skills at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537057