Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191339 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/18/016
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
One of the most disturbing contemporary episodes in human history that has been decried globally is the recent Libyan experience of slave trade, where migrants captured end-up being sold as slaves. We contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon by investigating the role of cognitive human capital in slave trade. To this end, we use the historic intelligence and slave trade variables respectively, as the independent and outcome variables of interest. Our findings show a negative relationship between slave trade and cognitive human capital. Hence, slave trade is more apparent when cognitive human capital is low. The Ordinary Least Squares findings are robust to the control for outliers, uncertainty about the model and Tobit regressions. We substantiate why from the perspective of massive sensitisation and education, the non-contemporary relationship between cognitive ability and slave trade established in this study has contemporary practical policy relevance in efforts to stem the tide of clandestine travel to Europe through countries in which clandestine migrants are captured and sold as slaves.
Subjects: 
Intelligence
Human Capital
Slavery
JEL: 
I20
I29
N30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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