AGRARIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION, LAND OWNERSHIP SYSTEMS, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: SETTLER ECONOMIES DURING THE FIRST GLOBALIZATION Jorge Álvarez & Henry Willebald Documento On Line Nº 30 Setiembre 2013 ISSN: 1688-9037 ISSN: 1688-9037 Título-clave: Documentos de trabajo (Programa de Historia Económica y Social, Unidad Multidisciplinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República) Título-clave abreviado: Documentos trab. (Programa Historia Económica Social, Unidad Multidisciplinaria, Facultad Cienc. Sociales, Univ. Repúb) © Programa de Historia Económica y Social – Unidad Multidisciplinaria – Facultad de Ciencias Sociales – Universidad de la República Constituyente 1502, 4º piso. Teléfono: (+598) 24136400 Fax: (+598) 24102769 Jorge Álvarez & Henry Willebald AGRARIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION, LAND OWNERSHIP SYSTEMS, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: SETTLER ECONOMIES DURING THE FIRST GLOBALIZATION Documento On Line Nº 30 Setiembre 2013 ISSN: 1688-9037 Agrarian income distribution, land ownership systems, and economic performance: settler economies during the First Globalization Jorge Álvarez
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[email protected] Instituto de Economía, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Abstract The aim of this paper is to explain the impact of the establishment of the system of landownership on the income distribution and economic growth of settler economies (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay) during the First Globalization. We consider a conceptual framework based on the New Institutional Economic Theory to describe the process of the distribution of the land property rights in historical perspective and to analyze the characteristics of the land tenure system in a comparative perspective.