| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20958 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20958 |
| Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating | |
| Christian Dippel; Avner Greif; Daniel Trefler | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-02-23 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In economies with a large informal sector firms can increase profits by reducing workers’ outside options in that informal sector. We formalize this idea in a simple model of an agricultural economy with plantation owners who lobby the government to enact coercive policies—e.g. the eviction and incarceration of squatting small-hold farmers—that reduce the value to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies ‘sugar islands’ from the year of slave emancipation in 1838 until 1913, we examine the impact of plantation owners’ power on wages and coercion-related incarceration. To gain identification, we utilize exogenous variation in the ease with which smallholders could evade the plantation system in the different islands over time. Where evading the plantation system became exogenously easier, planter power declined, incarceration rates dropped, and agricultural wages rose, accompanied by a decline in formal agricultural employment. Most of the wage increase can be statistically explained by the reduced coercion of smallholders. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; History ; Financial History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20958 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578633 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christian Dippel,Avner Greif,Daniel Trefler. Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating. 2015. |
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