Replication data for: Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Suresh Naidu; Noam Yuchtman
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Project Citation:
Naidu, Suresh, and Yuchtman, Noam. Replication data for: Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112585V1
Project Description
Summary:
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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)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J41 Labor Contracts
K12 Contract Law
K31 Labor Law
N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
N43 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: Pre-1913
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J41 Labor Contracts
K12 Contract Law
K31 Labor Law
N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
N43 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: Pre-1913
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