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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor : The United States in Historical Perspective
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2013
This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de … recent "polarization" of labor demand since the late 1980s. New archival evidence on wages suggests that the demand for high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087448
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Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing
Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
power and the impact of steam power on labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing. A key result …, steam powered establishments had higher labor productivity than establishments using hand or animal power, or water power …. We also find that the impact of steam on labor productivity was increasing in establishment size. The diffusion of steam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248277
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Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s
Margo, Robert A. - 2011
This paper surveys recent research on employment and unemployment in the 1930s. Unlike earlier studies that tended to rely heavily on aggregate time series, the research discussed in this paper focuses on disaggregated data. This shift in focus stems from two factors. First, dissaggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124454
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Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War
Margo, Robert A. - 2012
This paper uses newly collected archival evidence to examine various aspects of the geographic performance of American labor markets before the Civil War. Much of the paper addresses the evolution of regional differences in real wages, of interest to economic historians because they speak to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101457
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Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism : New Evidence
Kiesling, L. Lynne; Margo, Robert A. - 2022
The 1850s witnessed one of the earliest American history. During the decade the proportion of individuals receiving public assistance -- increased from 5.8 in 1850 to 10.2 in 1860, an increase of 76 percent. Previous attempts to explain the increase in antebellum pauperism have been hampered by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293148
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Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War
Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
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;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236708
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Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War
Margo, Robert A. - 2011
This paper uses newly collected archival evidence to examine various aspects of the geographic performance of American labor markets before the Civil War. Much of the paper addresses the evolution of regional differences in real wages, of interest to economic historians because they speak to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132817
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The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots
Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - 2021
Between 1964 and 1971, hundreds of riots erupted in American cities, resulting in large numbers of injuries, deaths, and arrests, as well as in considerable property damage concentrated in predominantly black neighborhoods. There have been few studies of an econometric nature that examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221887
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Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation : the American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860
Atack, Jeremy - 2015
. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039250