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Lucas annual time-series data appendix for southern African labour migration

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Kind author survey or fieldwork
Producer R.E.B. Lucas
Coverage 1946-1978
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Lucas (1987a) Annual time-series data compiled for Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, 1946-1978 (mine employment, wages, crop value/output, cattle, rainfall, population, estate/plantation employment and wages) 1946-1978 Supplies all variables for the simultaneous equations estimating mine migration, crop output, cattle herds and estate/plantation labor markets.
Lucas (1987b) Author's data appendix (available on request) 1946-1978 Itemizes sources and definitions of all variables, but is not printed in the paper.