Monopsony and industrial development in nineteenth century Quebec : the impact of seigneurial tenure

Kufenko, Vadim; Arsenault Morin, Alex; Geloso, Vincent

Monopsony and industrial development in nineteenth century Quebec : the impact of seigneurial tenure

dc.contributor.author	Kufenko, Vadim	de
dc.contributor.author	Arsenault Morin, Alex	de
dc.contributor.author	Geloso, Vincent	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:53:29Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:53:29Z
dc.date.created	2016-10-10
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	We argue that the system of seigneurial tenure used in the province of Quebec until the mid-nineteenth centurya system which allowed significant market power in the establishment of plants, factories and mills, combined with restrictions on the mobility of the labor force within each seigneurial estateis best understood as a system of regionalized monopsonies in the non-farm sector. Seigneurs had incentives to reduce their employment in those sectors to reduce wage rates. We use the fact that later, with the Constitutional Act of 1791, all new settled lands had to be settled under a different system (British land laws). This natural experiment allows us to test our hypothesis that seigneurial tenure was a monopsony, using data from the 1831 and 1851 Lower Canada censuses. We find strong evidence that this difference in tenure partially explains the gap in industrial development between Quebec and the neighboring colony of Ontario.	en
dc.identifier.swb	47783549X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6082
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-12824
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung; 51
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject	Canadian Economic History	en
dc.subject	Monopsony	en
dc.subject	Economic development	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Kanada	de
dc.subject.gnd	Nachfragemonopol	de
dc.subject.gnd	Wirtschaftsentwicklung	de
dc.title	Monopsony and industrial development in nineteenth century Quebec : the impact of seigneurial tenure	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Kufenko2016, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6082}, author = {Kufenko, Vadim and Arsenault Morin, Alex and Geloso, Vincent et al.}, title = {Monopsony and industrial development in nineteenth century Quebec : the impact of seigneurial tenure}, year = {2016}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Kufenko, Vadim and Arsenault Morin, Alex and Geloso, Vincent et al.
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local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1282
local.series.issueNumber	51
local.series.title	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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