The Economics of Labor Coercion

The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are “coercive,” in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. We propose a t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Wolitzky, Alexander Greenberg
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Econometric Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61322
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