ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of labour mobility and rural migration in the formation of working class attitudes characteristic of capitalism (proletarianisation) - discusses relationships with division of labour, and considers elements of social conflict inherent in workers...

Argues for an approach aimed not only at the material restoration of lost or injured assets, but also paving the way for social, economic and cultural rehabilitation of affected indigenous communities. Focuses essentially on Latin America and draws to an extent on the ILO's research and...

Focuses on the consequences of the European Single Market for migrant workers, especially those from non-Community countries.

This paper studies the political economy of fertility. Specifically, I argue that fertility may be a strategic choice for ethnic groups engaged in redistributive conflict. I first present a simple conflict model where high fertility is optimal for each ethnic group if and only if the...

"An Unequal Democracy?: Seeing Latin America through European Eyes" is the result of a conference organized by the International Institute for Governance of Catalonia in November 2003, with support from the government of Catalonia and the Special Office in Europe of the IDB. At the conference, a...

An important consensus today is that intolerance and social conflict have a substantial economic dimension. This article models a person’s “returns” to acts of intolerance in terms of social approval or disapproval that this person’s peer-group may offer. It is found that high levels of...

На основе социально-экономической стратификации субъектов сообщества, которыми могут быть индивиды, фирмы, организации, компании и даже государства, и на основе...

Este escrito describe y analiza el proceso histórico colombiano relacionado con la colonización de baldíos entre 1850 y 1910, a partir de su dinámica de desarrollo y formación en permanente conflicto social a través de los años, con sus implicaciones económicas, políticas, jurídicas y...

This paper examines the role of social conflict in explaining macroeconomic phenomena and, especially, the effectiveness of aggregate demand policies as a means of raising real output. The social conflict approach to macroeconomic phenomena is compared with a Keynesian view along with Ball,...

This paper presents a new theory of trade policy-making based on the possibility of social conflict, and determines the conditions under which it will apply. In a setting where property rights are poorly enforced, the paper shows that the Stolper-Samuelson theorem embodies a set of sufficient...