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The Earnings Gap Between Male and Female Workers : An Historical Perspective

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1986

Has economic progress increased the relative earnings of females to males over the long run? Evidence on trends in the earnings gap for the last four decades appears to run counter to this hypothesis. Numerous data sources are used in this paper to piece together a 170-year history of the...

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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2010

The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...

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The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1994

The labor force participation rate of married women first declines and then rises as countries develop. Its þ-shape is revealed both across the process of economic development and through the histories of currently advanced countries. The initial decline in the participation rate is due to the...

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The Savings of Ordinary Americans : The Philidelphia Saving Fund Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Alter, George; Goldin, Claudia; Rotella, Elyce J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1992

We explore the savings behavior and saving rates of ordinary Americans through their accounts at the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society. the oldest mutual savings bank in the United States founded in 1816 to encourage thrift among the working poor. Our sample contains the 2.374 accounts opened in...

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Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War

Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1989

Two opposing views of the antebellum economy are tested. One is that aggregate economic activity was severely diminished and that unemployment was substantial and prolonged during several downturns. The alternative interpretation is that antebellum fluctuations were more apparent than real;...

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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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FDI in the Restructuring of the Japanese Economy

Blomstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper examines how inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) have influenced the restructuring of the Japanese economy and can be expected to continue to do so in the future. We find that outward investment has helped Japanese firms to sustain foreign market shares and contributed...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...

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