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Rural labour markets and rural conflict in Spain before the Civil War (1931-1936)
Domenech, Jordi - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2012
This paper looks at the causes of rural conflict in 1930s Spain. Rather than stressing bottom-up forces of mobilisation … labourers. I do so by looking at the effects of intervention on rural labour markets in dry-farming areas of Spain (parts of … Spain. Secondly, because my argument implies the existence of severe restrictions to the labour supply of rural labourers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650198
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Land tenure inequality, harvests, and rural conflict ; evidence from Southern Spain in the 1930s.
Domenech, Jordi - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2013
South of Spain. The historical and economics literature argues that rural conflict was a bottom-up, spontaneous response of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861814
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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516186
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How do economies in EU-CEE cope with labour shortages?
Astrov, Vasily; Leitner, Sebastian; Grieveson, Richard; … - 2021
The EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe (EU-CEE) were experiencing rising labour shortages prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing demographic decline means that the issue is likely to resurface once the pandemic is over. As a result, the bargaining power of labour has increased,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616356
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How do economies in EU-CEE cope with labour shortages? Study update from wiiw research report 452
Astrov, Vasily; Grieveson, Richard; Hanzl-Weiss, Doris; … - 2022
The EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe (EU-CEE) have been experiencing increasing labour shortages, which only briefly subsided in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ongoing demographic decline suggests that labour shortages will only get stronger over time. As a result, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374342
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How do economies in EU-CEE cope with labour shortages?
Astrov, Vasily; Leitner, Sebastian; Grieveson, Richard; … - 2021
The EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe (EU-CEE) were experiencing rising labour shortages prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing demographic decline means that the issue is likely to resurface once the pandemic is over. As a result, the bargaining power of labour has increased,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432265
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How do economies in EU-CEE cope with labour shortages? : study update from wiiw research report 452
Astrov, Vasily; Grieveson, Richard; Hanzl-Weiss, Doris; … - 2022
The EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe (EU-CEE) have been experiencing increasing labour shortages, which only briefly subsided in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ongoing demographic decline suggests that labour shortages will only get stronger over time. As a result, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455852
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Relative deprivation and labour conflict during Spain’s industrialization: the Bilbao estuary, 1914–1936
Houpt, Stefan Oliver; Cagigal, Juan Carlos Rojo - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 3, pp. 335-369
What drove social conflict in Spain’s industrial areas in the period before the Spanish Civil War? This paper is … concerned with contrasting the determinants of working-class conflict in northern Spain at the beginning of the twentieth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894682
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Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377250
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Gender-biased technological change : milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319184