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This paper examines wine output and slave labor productivity in the Dutch and British Cape Colony, leveraging annual tax censuses. We document a substantial increase in wine production, but, despite substantial institutional changes over more than a century, we find surprisingly stable median...
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, namely, the abolition of slavery and the evolution of bankruptcy laws. This paper investigates the welfare implications of … sub-optimal outcomes under the institutions of slavery and unlimited liability. The abolition of slavery and the …
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practices related to slavery by listed banking companies of Bangladesh and the relationship between reporting practice and … from the company websites, and content analysis was used to determine the nature and extent of slavery reporting; an index …. Content analysis showed a clear picture of the consciousness about slavery accounting as all of the companies reported a …
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Many recent discourses on modern slavery have dedicated attention to gendered dimension of trafficking, labour … paper provides a deeper contextual understanding beyond the sensationalism of many mainstream modern slavery advocates. It …
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thematically, providing empirical evidence and summarizing the key recent studies on colonial institutions, slavery, land reform …
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This study aims to bridge the gap in the existing literature by examining the impact of prevailing traditional slavery … Island, Indonesia. Notably, despite democratization efforts since the 1950s, the traditional slavery institution, deeply …
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The rise of the "New History of Capitalism" as a subfield of historical studies has magnified differences between economists and historians which started to grow during the 1970s. We describe what is and what is not new about the New History of Capitalism and explain how the different...
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Die Annahme, es gäbe heutzutage keine Sklaverei mehr, geht an der Realität vorbei. Tatsächlich sind heute - in … Vereinten Nationen spricht von "moderner Sklaverei" und schätzt, dass derzeit mindestens 40 Millionen Menschen davon betroffen … sind. Dieser Atlas möchte das Bewusstsein für die weithin ignorierte Sklaverei schaffen. Er zeigt auf, dass der Fortbestand …
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Through this paper, the author emphasises the importance of the role that migrant women and men play in the Italian agricultural sector, and the need to better protect them from forms of labour exploitation. Italian products are well known all over the world and represent the excellency of an...
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