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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 Halenda - 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...

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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...

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Women at Work in the United States Since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda - 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...

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The Post-Crisis Phillips Curve: A New Empirical Relationship between Wage and Inflation

Voinea, Liviu - 2019

In this paper we test a new empirical relationship between wage and inflation. We introduce the concept of a cumulative wage gap, meaning the cumulative gap between the current wage and a maximum peak wage value in the past. In a crisis, people relate to their peak gains in the immediate past....

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Prediction intervals for inflation and unemployment rate in Romania. A Bayesian approach

Simionescu, Mihaela - 2017

The main aim of this paper is to provide forecast intervals for inflation and unemployment rate in Romania, bringing …

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The societal costs of inflation and unemployment

Popova, Olga; See, Sarah Grace; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2023

, we find that both inflation and unemployment have a negative link with confidence in financial institutions. While …What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million … inflation is generally unassociated with confidence in government and leadership approval, unemployment still has a strong …

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