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Manumission in nineteenth century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
context of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with …, more productive slaves faced more attractive labor market opportunities outside slavery, which elicited greater effort … within slavery in order to buy their way out of slavery. Further, this paper addresses three important and two emergent …
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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with the … productive slaves faced more attractive labor market opportunities outside slavery, which elicited greater effort within slavery … in order to buy their way out of slavery. Further, this paper addresses three important and two emergent literatures: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148375
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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with the … productive slaves faced more attractive labor market opportunities outside slavery, which elicited greater effort within slavery … in order to buy their way out of slavery. Further, this paper addresses three important and two emergent literatures: the …
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Points in manumission, and cases of contested freedom
Henry, Jabez - 1817
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The labor/land ratio and India's caste system
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with...
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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940481
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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
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Are older workers worthy of their pay? : an empirical investigation of age-productivity and age-wage nexuses
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Varejão, José M. - 2010
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...
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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965500