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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170306
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Women at work in the United States since 1860: an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2021
original data as formally working, but are likely to be engaged in the labor force on the basis of the self- employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550031
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are … labor market transition behavior at these margins, finding remarkably consistent results in the two countries, with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064016
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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 H. - 2020
working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239377
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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 H. - 2020
working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242930
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646629
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are … labor market transition behavior at these margins, finding remarkably consistent results in the two countries, with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647679
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Women at work in the United States since 1860 : an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533821
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The problem of US labor force participation
Bown, Chad P.; Freund, Caroline L. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959317
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Economic distress and labor market participation
Stephens, Heather M.; Deskins, John - In: American journal of agricultural economics 100 (2018) 5, pp. 1336-1356
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959956