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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2016

American women are working more, through their sixties and even into their seventies. Their increased participation at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men's labor force participation and the economic downturns of the 2000s. The higher labor force participation...

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The New Lifecycle of Women's Employment : Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops

Goldin, Claudia - 2019

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment had a hump shape; it increased from the twenties to the forties, hit a peak and then declined starting in the fifties. The new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat,...

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High-Tech Capital Formation and Labor Composition in U.S. Manufacturing Industries : An Exploratory Analysis

Berndt, Ernst R.; Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; … - 2022

In this paper we report results of an exploratory empirical effort examining relationships between investments in high-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment. Our data cover the two-digit U.S....

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Shocking Labor Supply : A Reassessment of the Role of World War Ii on U.S. Women's Labor Supply

Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and...

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How Japan and the Us Can Reduce the Stress of Aging

Goldin, Claudia - 2016

The Japanese are becoming older. Americans are also becoming older. Demographic stress in Japan, measured by the dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility rate (TFR) was in the 4 to 5 range. As the TFR began...

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Marriage Bars : Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920'S to 1950'S

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

Modern personnel practices, social consensus, and the Depression acted in concert to delay the emergence of married women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by firms and local school boards, from about the early 1900's...

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Assessing the Productivity of Information Technology Equipment in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; Berndt, Ernst R. - 2021

1986. The sign of the estimated elasticity of demand for labor with respect to changes in the stock of 0 capital is evenly … divided in the fourteen industries, but whether positive or negative, in all industries this elasticity increases in absolute … the elasticity of technical progress with respect to 0-capital are very small in magnitude implying that increases in o …

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From the Valley to the Summit : The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women'S Work

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

Meaningful discussions about women at the top' can take place today only because a quiet revolution occurred about thirty years ago. The transformation was startlingly rapid and was accomplished by the unwitting foot soldiers of an upheaval that transformed the workforce. It can be seen in a...

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The Meaning of College in the Lives of American Women : the Past One-Hundred Years

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

Three cohorts of college women are considered here. The first, graduating from 1900 to 1920, was faced with a choice of "family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that is, "family then job." The third, graduating...

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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women

Goldin, Claudia - 2022

factors considered and the health impact of COVID-19 is a probable reason. The estimation of the pandemic’s impact depends on …

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