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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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Part-Time Work vs. Full-Time Work of Married Women in Japan

Yamada, Tadashi - 1985

In this paper, we attempt to resolve the drawbacks in previous studies of the labor supply of women in Japan. We … women by using the 1980 Population Census data for Japan.The major finding is that there is a clear difference in the labor … implementation, giving special attention to the specific characteristics of the labor market of women in Japan would be useful and …

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Part-time Employment of Married Women and Fertility in Urban Japan

Yamada, Tadashi - 1984

Previous studies of female labor force participation in Japan often show that the estimates of female wage rates are … interdependency between married women's decisions to work as part-time employees and their fertility in urban Japan …

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Estimation of a Simultaneous Model of Married Women's Labor Force Participation and Fertility in Urban Japan

Yamada, Tadashi - 1984

Japan in past decades. Relative to empirical studies of a traditional single equation on female labor supply, there exist … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …

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Effectiveness of Government Policy : An Experience from a National HealthCare System

Yamada, Tetsuji - 1994

elderly patients in the context of the initiative taken by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to discourage lengthy … hospital treatment and/or stay by elderly patients. By using three leading diseases among the elderly in Japan (cancer, heart …

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The Allocation of Time : Young Versus Elderly Households in Japan

Yamada, Tadashi - 1993

-market time allocation in Japan and that to be found in the U.S …

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