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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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Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trinh, Trong-Anh; Verme, Paolo - 2021

Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Analyzing the Building a New...

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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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Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents' health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and … periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that parental unemployment bears an association with decreased health … increased parental unemployment, saw a decrease in health-related quality of life and increased adverse mental health symptoms …

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Unemployment and subjective well-being

Suppa, Nicolai - 2021

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well …. Topics covered include the estimation of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment, unemployment over time, the role of others …' unemployment, spill-over effects, and re-employment, among others. …

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