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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022
This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170306
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Women at work in the United States since 1860: an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2021
Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550031
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Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female's role, and lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242930
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The economics of language : an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729415
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The employment, unemployment and unemployment compensation benefits of immigrants
Hurst, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … proxy measure of unemployment compensation benefits received in 1989. The theoretical model focuses on the job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325990
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The employment, unemployment and unemployment compensation benefits of immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Hurst, Michael - 2000
This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … proxy measure of unemployment compensation benefits received in 1989. The theoretical model focuses on the job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001471788
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Negative and positive assimilation by prices and by quantities
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013
probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … ; unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740293