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Fascist ideology and migrant labor exploitation
Carillo, Mario F.; Dipoppa, Gemma; Satyanath, Shanker - 2023
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Reputational consequences of labor coercion : evidence from Assam's tea plantations
Gupta, Bishnupriya; Swamy, Anand V. - In: Journal of development economics 127 (2017), pp. 431-439
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Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020
and the ideology of politicians campaigning for the House of Representatives in the 1992-2016 period. Implementing various … polarization measures based on ideology data derived from 16 million campaign finance contributors, our results show that migrant … over the medium-run, although the effects decline over time. The effects of migration are stronger if counties host …
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The confederate diaspora
Bazzi, Samuel; Ferrara, Andreas; Fiszbein, Martín; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319848
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Political ideology mismatch as a determinant of the intention to migrate : evidence from Latin America
Saravia, Antonio; Marroquín, Andrés - In: International journal of social economics 50 (2023) 1, pp. 97-110
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The other great migration : southern whites and the new right
Bazzi, Samuel; Ferrara, Andreas; Fiszbein, Martín; … - 2021
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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657144
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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669329
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917048
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Was Domar right? Serfdom and factor endowments in Bohemia
Klein, Alexander; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2017
Do factor endowments explain serfdom? Domar (1970) conjectured that high land-labor ratios caused serfdom by increasing incentives to coerce labor. But historical evidence is mixed and quantitative analyses are lacking. Using the Acemoglu-Wolitzky (2011) framework and controlling for political...
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