Mine labour supply panel (sending country data, Met Office, recruitment quotas)
Literature › Primary sources
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| Kind |
official statistical series |
| Producer |
Various national statistical offices / TEBA |
| Coverage |
1946-1978 |
| Works using it |
2 |
Debates
Works using this source
| Work |
As cited |
Period |
How used |
| Lucas (1987a) |
Announced Nyasaland/Malawi quotas versus recorded new recruits |
1946-1964 and later |
Comparison of quotas with recruits identifies years when quotas were binding, which are excluded from supply estimation. |
| Lucas (1987a) |
South African Department of Statistics and Meteorological Office data |
1946-1978 |
Provides South African wage, employment, crop, cattle and rainfall series and mine wage data. |
| Lucas (1987b) |
Annual time-series data 1946-1978 on mine employment by sending country (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa), mine wages, home wages, employment, crop output and values, cattle numbers, rainfall, fertilizer sales, tobacco grower numbers, estate acreage, construction output |
1946-1978 |
Supplies the consistent annual series for all variables used to estimate the migration, crop output, cattle and estate-labor equations. |
| Lucas (1987b) |
Instrumental variables: wage rates of white miners in South Africa and mineral prices |
1946-1978 |
Used with principal components of exogenous variables as instruments for endogenous mine wage and outputs. |
| Lucas (1987b) |
Nyasaland announced annual recruiting quotas versus recorded new recruits |
colonial period to 1974 |
Comparison of announced quota with recorded recruits identifies years in which quotas bound, which are excluded from the migration equation. |
| Lucas (1987b) |
South African Department of Statistics and Meteorological Office data |
1946-1978 |
Provides South African series on mine and other wages, employment, crop values and rainfall for the homelands equations. |