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dc.contributor.authorDuleep, Harrieten
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-19-
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-14T11:07:51Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-14T11:07:51Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/62558-
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x6612en
dc.subject.jelJ47en
dc.subject.jelJ1en
dc.subject.jelJ30en
dc.subject.jelN3en
dc.subject.jelZ13en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordlabor-to-land ratioen
dc.subject.keywordpopulationen
dc.subject.keywordinvoluntary laboren
dc.subject.keywordimmobilityen
dc.subject.keywordvalue of lifeen
dc.subject.keywordmarginal product of laboren
dc.subject.keywordmarket wageen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Schichten
dc.subject.stwSklavereien
dc.subject.stwArbeitskräfteen
dc.subject.stwBodenen
dc.subject.stwFaktorintensitäten
dc.subject.stwEigentümerstrukturen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsproduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwSozialgeschichteen
dc.subject.stwIndienen
dc.titleThe labor/land ratio and India's caste system-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn717908593en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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