@techreport{Duleep2012labor,
abstract = {This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with data from ancient religious texts, and cross-sectionally, with twentieth-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal and cross-sectional evidence suggest that the labor/land ratio affected the caste system's development, persistence, and rigidity over time and across regions of India.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Harriet Duleep},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J47; J1; J30; N3; Z13; 330; labor-to-land ratio; population; involuntary labor; immobility; value of life; marginal product of labor; market wage; Soziale Schicht; Sklaverei; Arbeitskr\"{a}fte; Boden; Faktorintensit\"{a}t; Eigent\"{u}merstruktur; Arbeitsproduktivit\"{a}t; Sozialgeschichte; Indien},
language = {eng},
number = {6612},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {The labor/land ratio and India's caste system},
type = {Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62558},
year = {2012}
}
