Labor Coercion and the Accumulation of Human Capital

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Morrow, Peter M.

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“…Another example of the importance of initial institutions is found in a trio of papers that estimate the impact of terms-of-trade shocks on wages in coercive societies (Bobonis and Morrow, 2010, Dippel et al, 2012, Naidu and Yuchtman, 2013. In neoclassical trade models, favourable term-of-trade shocks translate into positive demand shocks and positive demand shocks translate into higher wages.…”

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Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage

Nunn

Trefler

2014

Handbook of International Economics

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for valuable comments. Trefler gratefully acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…Acemoglu and Wolitzky (2011) define coercion as an active attempt to reduce the outside options of workers. As will become apparent,Bobonis and Morrow (2010),Dippel et al (2012), andNaidu and Yuchtman (2013) are all instances of coercion in this sense.…”

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Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage

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2014

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“…Economic historians and development economists have long studied legal restrictions on labor mobility. The overwhelming focus of the literature has been agricultural (see Bobonis and Morrow (2010) and Naidu (2010) for recent empirical examples). 5 Economic historians have focused on agricultural slavery in the U.S. South (Fogel andEngerman, 1974, andWright, 2006) and serfdom (Brenner, 1976, Domar andMachina, 1984), while development economists have studied bonded labor in contemporary agricultural settings (Bardhan, 1983, Sadoulet, 1992, and Mukherjee and Ray, 1995.…”

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Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain

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Yuchtman

2013

American Economic Review

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British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions. Positive shocks in the textile, iron, and coal industries increased prosecutions. Following the abolition of criminal sanctions, wages differentially rose in counties that had experienced more prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain; restricted mobility allowed workers to commit to risk-sharing contracts with lower, but less volatile, wages. (JEL J31, J41, K12, K31, N33, N43)

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“…La relación entre el capital humano y la tasa de emprendimiento se ha incrementado en los últimos años; la evidencia empírica que verifica la relación entre las dos variables se divide en tres grupos; el primero involucra el efecto positivo del capital humano, donde destacan los trabajos realizados por Ahsan y Haque (2017) y Mestieri, Schauer y Townsend (2017), quienes indican que un individuo, para desarrollarse en el ámbito empresarial, debe contar con educación, capacidades y habilidades que le permitan desempeñarse de forma adecuada en el mercado laboral, con la subsecuente generación de ingresos que mejoren la calidad de vida familiar y de la sociedad en general. En este sentido, existe una amplia literatura reciente que resalta tal vinculación y su impacto regional (Bobonis y Morrow, 2014;Attanasio, et al, 2017;Weldeegzie, 2017).…”

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El rol del capital humando en el emprendimiento regional en Ecuador: un enfoque usando métodos espaciales

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Soto

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El emprendimiento es un mecanismo ampliamente utilizado para generar empleo y aumentar los niveles de producción. Sin embargo, no siempre surge de forma espontánea y más bien requiere del impulso de la política pública. En tal contexto, el objetivo de esta investigación es examinar el efecto del capital humano en la tasa de emprendimiento regional en Ecuador; utilizamos datos publicados por el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos. Con el fin de capturar el contagio espacial que produce el nacimiento de nuevas empresas y la movilidad territorial del capital humano, estimamos un conjunto de modelos de rezago espacial (SAR), de error espacial (SEM), espacial de Durbin (SDM) y de rezago y error espacial (SARMA). Nuestros resultados destacan la importancia de la inclusión del rol del espacio en la comprensión de la interacción entre unidades territoriales y sugieren que el capital humano posee un efecto positivo en la tasa de emprendimiento regional con derrames espaciales. Los resultados son consistentes ante la inclusión de un conjunto de variables de control relacionadas con las dotaciones de las regiones. Una implicación de política pública derivada de nuestra investigación es que la planificación pública orientada a promover el nacimiento de nuevas empresas debe considerar el rol del contagio espacial del emprendimiento y la movilidad territorial del capital humano.

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Labor Coercion and the Accumulation of Human Capital

Cited by 38 publications

References 32 publications

Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage

Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage

Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain

El rol del capital humando en el emprendimiento regional en Ecuador: un enfoque usando métodos espaciales

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