Triadic Power Relations with Production, External Markets and Multiple Agents

We discuss whether Basu's (1986) model of triadic power relations is robust to generalizations where we allow multiple landlords, merchants and laborers. In the special case of one landlord and multiple merchants we show that the landlord's threat towards any laborer becomes credible even in the original stage game model. For the case of multiple landlords we need to generalize more recent solution concepts. We add realism by allowing the laborers' reservation utilities to vary with the costs of trading in external markets and the characteristics of the laborers. We allow production by landlords and merchants, as well as Cournot competition among merchants. In equilibrium the rural wages are a function of the number of landlords and merchants, the characteristics of the laborers and distance to external markets. We estimate the model, using household survey data from Nepal, and find strong support for the triadic model.

The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture

Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr drama

Attached Labor in Nepal: A Field-Study of Landlord-Labor Relations that are Misrepresented in the Nepal-LSMS data

Abstract: In the LSMS data for Nepal most agricultural laborers report daily wages, while econometric analysis on the data indicates that, for many villages, the laborers actually have long-term contracts. We have visited some of the villages to solve this puzzle. We find that in some cases the daily wages are actually part of attached labor contracts that are not reported in the LSMS data. We go on to describe the variation in benefits and threats landlords apply to keep the laborers at a wage below the competitive wage, and we discuss a policy implication of the misrepresentation of data.Qualitative data; tied labor

Labor choices of farm families: substitutes, complements and simultaneous decision making

Agricultural laborers ; Labor market

Day Labor in San Rafael, California: The Feasibility of Uniting Contradictory Positions

Feasibility Study done in 2001 for the City of San Rafael, CA, on organizing San Rafael's day laborers into a hiring hall

An incentive to increase laborers' productivity with adopting performance-based wages and paid vacations

This paper shows that introducing a paid-vacation system tied to performance is effective in increasing the motivation of laborers to make effort and exercise high productivity. This effect is similar to the effects of implementing a performance-based wage system, on which many earlier papers have focused. We also found that the paid-vacation system can be particularly effective in companies where high-skilled laborers are required and labor hours are long. In addition, laborers' motivation can be greater when a company offers different performance-based compensation schemes, such as the performance-based system and the paid-vacation system, because each laborer has heterogeneous preference for leisure.paid vacation, performance-based wage, incentive, effort

Si Se Puede : developing farmworker housing in the 12th District

Agricultural laborers - Housing ; Federal Reserve District, 12th

Jewett, Town of and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 17

In the matter of Fact Finding Between Town of Jewett And Laborers International Union of North America, Local 17. PERB Case M2008-168. Before: Thomas B. Quimby, PERB-Appointed Fact Finder