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The Entry Into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996
) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …
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The Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century
Margo, Robert A. - 1992
This paper surveys recent research on the labor force in the nineteenth century. I examine trends in the aggregate size, demographic, occupational and industrial composition of the labor force; short-run and long-run movements in nominal and real wages; hours of work; the development of the...
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The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900 : Further Results
Margo, Robert A. - 1991
. Because the probability of re-employment, conditional on unemployment, appears to have declined with age, the probability of …
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