Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/304290 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1502
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
In a post land reformenvironment, violence and redistribution are substitutes for an opportunistic incumbent attempting industrialization. We setup a theoretical model to explore this relationship for individual and group level violence across two types of policy driven post land-reformindustrialization (PLRI)-small and large-scale, in the Indian state of WestBengal. We find strong evidence for our theoretical prediction of an inverse relationship between land redistribution and both types of violence during the period of small scale industrialization after an industrial policy was announced in 1994-95 by the incumbent. This relationship however breaks down for individual level violence during attempts at large-scale industrialization between 2006-2011, even though both types of violence increase in this phase.
Subjects: 
post land-reform
redistribution
industrialization
individual-level violence
grouplevel violence
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JEL: 
D74
Q15
C25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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