from free labor to family allowances: labor and African society in colonial discourse

Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing∗

Using matched employer-employee data on 10 African countries, this paper examines the relationship beween wages, worker supervision, and labor productivity in manufacturing. Wages increase with Þrm size for both production workers and supervisors. We develop a two-tier model of supervision that can account for this stylized fact and we Þt the structural model to the data. Employee data is used ...

Family Firms and Labor Relations

Empirical evidence suggests that family ownership has important implications for economic growth. Several studies find that family firms—at least secondand later-generation family firms in which the chief executive officer (CEO) is a family member, especially if CEO succession is based on primogeniture—perform relatively poorly (e.g., Francisco Pérez-González 2006; Morten Bennedsen et al. 2007;...

Free Labor for Costly Journals?

Agricultural Labor and Economic Transition in Colonial India: Lessons from Wage Data

Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations∗

Firm-level evidence suggests that family firms are more apt to honor implicit labor contracts than are widely held firms, making family firms especially successful at winning workers’ loyalty–a trait that is reflected in fewer strikes and lower unionization rates. Accordingly, we might expect to see more family ownership in countries in which labor relations, for cultural or historical reasons,...