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SUMMARY:Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires - 
 Professor Claudia Rei\, Department of Economics\, Vanderbilt University
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CONTACT:D'Maris Coffman
DESCRIPTION:The different organizational structure of the Portuguese and D
 utch merchant empires affected their ability to monitor workers. I test th
 e theoretical implications of these differences using micro data of overse
 as workers' compensation from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The
  two merchant empires used significantly different compensation structures
 : working for the king of Portugal corresponded on average to a bonus-wage
  ratio twice as high as than that of the Dutch East India Company. These r
 esults are consistent with theoretical implications and provide additional
  support to the historical evidence we have on the organizational structur
 e of merchant empires.\n\nThose interested in joining us for dinner should
  contact ddc22 to reserve a space.
LOCATION:Barbara White Room\, Newnham College
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