The GLO Discussion Paper of the Month of July finds that the inclusion of family workers more than triples the free female labor force participation rate in the 1860 Census of the USA, from 16 percent to 56 percent, which is comparable to today’s rate (57 percent in 2018).
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GLO Discussion Paper of the Month: July
GLO DP No. 587 Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R. & Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda
GLO Fellow Barry Chiswick
Author Abstract: 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 accurate or thorough enumeration by Census officials. This paper develops an augmented free female labor force participation rate for 1860. It is calculated by identifying free women (age 16 and older) who were likely providing informal and unenumerated labor for market production in support of a family business, that is, unreported family workers. These individuals are identified as not having a reported occupation, but are likely to be working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified into three categories: farm, merchant, and craft. The inclusion of this category of workers more than triples the free female labor force participation rate in the 1860 Census, from 16 percent to 56 percent, which is comparable to today’s rate (57 percent in 2018).
GLO Discussion Papers submitted in July 2020
623 Imperfect Mobility – Download PDF
by Cai, Zhengyu
622 Is Covid-19 “The Great Leveler”? The Critical Role of Social Identity in Lockdown-induced Job Losses – Download PDF
by Deshpande, Ashwini & Ramachandran, Rajesh
621 The labour market for native and international PhD students: similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers – Download PDF
by Tani, Massimiliano
620 Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany? – Download PDF
by Beissinger, Thomas & Hellier, Joël & Marczak, Martyna
619 Health Economics of Genetic Distance – Download PDF
by Jelnov, Pavel
618 Excess Mortality as a Predictor of Mortality Crises: The Case of COVID-19 in Italy – Download PDF
by Ceriani, Lidia & Verme, Paolo
617 Erasmus Exchange Program – A Matter of (Relatively) Older Students – Download PDF
by Carlsson, M. & Fumarco, L. & Gibbs, B. G.
616 The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Mobility and Traffic Accidents: Evidence from Louisiana – Download PDF
by Barnes, Stephen R. & Beland, Louis-Philippe & Huh, Jason & Kim, Dongwoo
615 Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? A systematic review of the empirical evidence – Download PDF
by Lippens, Louis & Baert, Stijn & Ghekiere, Abel & Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul & Derous, Eva
614 Unemployment of Unskilled Labor due to COVID-19 led Restriction on Migration and Trade – Download PDF
by Mandal, Biswajit & Chaudhuri, Saswati & Prasad, Alaka Shree
613 Reacting quickly and protecting jobs: The short-term impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Greek labor market – Download PDF
by Betcherman, Gordon & Giannakopoulos, Nicholas & Laliotis, Ioannis & Pantelaiou, Ioanna & Testaverde, Mauro & Tzimas, Giannis
612 As if it weren’t hard enough already: Breaking down hiring discrimination following burnout – Download PDF
by Sterkens, Philippe & Baert, Stijn & Rooman, Claudia & Derous, Eva
611 Ethnic Diversity, Concentration of Political Power and the Curse of Natural Resources – Download PDF
by Wadho, Waqar & Hussain, Sadia
610 The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets – Download PDF
by Baert, Stijn
609 Social Remittances – Download PDF
by Tuccio, Michele & Wahba, Jackline
608 A Global City in a Global Pandemic: Assessing the Ongoing Impact of COVID Induced Trends on London’s Economic Sectors – Download PDF
by Anderson, Dylan & Hesketh, Rachel & Kleinman, Mark & Portes, Jonathan
607 The Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: First Order Effects on Gender Gaps in Employment and Domestic Time Use in India – Download PDF
by Deshpande, Ashwini
606 Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-national Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences – Download PDF
by Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Trinh, Trong-Anh
605 The impact of computer-assisted personal interviewing on survey duration, quality, and cost: Evidence from the Viet Nam Labor Force Survey – Download PDF
by Rao, Lakshman Nagraj & Gentile, Elisabetta & Pipon, Dave & Roque, Jude David & Thuy, Vu Thi Thu
604 The Distributional Impact of Recurrent Immovable Property Taxation in Greece – Download PDF
by Andriopoulou, Eirini & Kanavitsa, Eleni & Leventi, Chrysa & Tsakloglou, Panos
603 COVID-19, Race, and Redlining – Download PDF
by Bertocchi, Graziella & Dimico, Arcangelo
602 Wage Losses and Inequality in Developing Countries: labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey – Download PDF
by Duman, Anil
601 A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19 – Download PDF
by Brodeur, Abel & Gray, David & Islam, Anik & Bhuiyan, Suraiya Jabeen
600 Does the Rise of Robotic Technology Make People Healthier? – Download PDF
by Gunadi, Christian & Ryu, Hanbyul
599 Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean – Download PDF
by Pastore, Francesco & Webster, Allan & Hope, Kevin
598 A Signal of (Train)ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances – Download PDF
by Baert, Stijn & Picchio, Matteo
597 Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges – Download PDF
by Pugatch, Todd & Schroeder, Elizabeth
596 Sometimes your best just ain’t good enough: The worldwide evidence on subjective well-being efficiency – Download PDF
by Nikolova, Milena & Popova, Olga
595 Stuck at a crossroads? The duration of the Italian school-to-work transition – Download PDF
by Pastore, Francesco & Quintano, Claudio & Rocca, Antonella
594 Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age: Comparative Evidence from China and the United States – Download PDF
by Chen, Xi & Yan, Binjian & Gill, Thomas M.
593 China’s Economic Demography Transition Strategy: A Population Weighted Approach to the Economy and Policy – Download PDF
by Johnston, Lauren A.
592 Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment – Download PDF
by Chowdhury, Shyamal & Sutter, Matthias & Zimmermann, Klaus F.
591 Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality – Download PDF
by Dasgupta, Utteeyo & Mani, Subha & Sharma, Smriti & Singhal, Saurabh
590 Who Goes on Disability when Times are Tough? The Role of Work Norms among Immigrants – Download PDF
by Furtado, Delia & Papps, Kerry L. & Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos
589 Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Sleep. Evidence from DACA – Download PDF
by Giuntella, Osea & Lonsky, Jakub & Mazzona, Fabrizio & Stella, Luca
588 Preserving job matches during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence on the role of government aid – Download PDF
by Bennedsen, Morten & Larsen, Birthe & Schmutte, Ian & Scur, Daniela
587 Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers – Download PDF
by Chiswick, Barry R. & Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda
586 Trick or treat? The Brexit effect on immigrants’ wellbeing in the UK – Download PDF
by Rienzo, Cinzia
GLO DP Team
Senior Editors: Matloob Piracha (University of Kent) & GLO; Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and Bonn University).
Managing Editor: Magdalena Ulceluse, University of Groningen. DP@glabor.org
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