labour control. The paper discusses to what extent land concentration in the southern province of colonial Malawi during the … early colonial period created specific institutions of labour control that determined agricultural growth on European …The role of factor endowments and institutions as drivers of socio-economic change and development is a central theme …

labour control. The paper discusses to what extent land concentration in the southern province of colonial Malawi during the … early colonial period created specific institutions of labour control that determined agricultural growth on European …The role of factor endowments and institutions as drivers of socio-economic change and development is a central theme …

The question whether institutions in Africa were shaped by the metropolitan identity of the colonizer or by local … concession-owning companies and Africa of the labour reserves. Interestingly, we argue that Mozambique encompassed all three …

and Africans in the reserves was not only capital, but also labour intensity. NP farmers applied more labour … of their capacity to use their control over land to access additional labour through share-cropping and tenancy contracts. …

is more likely to emerge as a dominant form of labour. It states that in cases of land abundance and labour shortages the … labour and the role of slaves can only be understood in relation to a wide range of existing labour contracts. Once … established, slavery came to play a significant role in facilitating increased production on the settler farms in the 18th century …

or failure of European farming in southern Africa was to a large extent depending on their access and control over labour … analyzing the ‘wage-burden’ European settler farmers faced. The wage-burden is identified by measuring wage shares (total amount … in colonial Malawi. Our estimates show that the wage burden decreased significantly after 1930s, i.e. the European …