Worker Displacement and the Added Worker Effect

This dissertation addresses labor market issues. The first two chapters deal with employment issues during the great recession using nationally representative data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The first chapter looks at the added worker effect in the great recession, the wife's labor market response to a husband loss of job. The second chapter investigates the impact of a wife's labor market participation on family poverty. The third chapter examines employment opportunities in the economics discipline using journal publication records from IDEAS/RePEc. It looks at the effect of new journal entry on the distribution of publicati

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Work Relief and the Labor Force Participation of Married Women in 1940

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700013991 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 64-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

T. Aldrich Finegan ◽

Robert A. Margo

Keyword(s):

Economic Analysis ◽

Labor Supply ◽

Labor Force ◽

Labor Force Participation ◽

New Deal ◽

Married Women ◽

Added Worker Effect ◽

The Great Depression ◽

The Impact ◽

Work Relief

Economic analysis of the labor supply of married women has long emphasized the impact of the unemployment of husbands—the added worker effect. This article re-examines the magnitude of the added worker effect in the waning years of the Great Depression. Previous studies of the labor supply of married women during this period failed to take account of various institutional features of New Deal work relief programs, which reduced the size of the added worker effect.

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The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2250326 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Yuhao Ge ◽

Hartmut F. Lehmann

Keyword(s):

Labor Markets ◽

Worker Displacement ◽

Urban Labor ◽

Urban Labor Markets

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Worker Displacement in Russia and Ukraine

In the Grip of Transition ◽

10.1057/9780230363595.0006 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Hartmut Lehmann ◽

Alexander Muravyev ◽

Norberto Pignatti ◽

Tiziano Razzolini ◽

Anzelika Zaiceva

Keyword(s):

Worker Displacement

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The African-American Labor Supply after Reconstruction: Added Worker Effects in Urban Families

Journal of Interdisciplinary History ◽

10.1162/jinh_a_00536 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 181-208

Author(s):

John E. Murray ◽

Werner Troesken

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Labor Force ◽

Urban Families ◽

African American Families ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

Added Worker Effect ◽

Econometric Evidence ◽

American Cities ◽

American Labor

Econometric analysis of a hitherto unused 1896 survey of African-American families in American cities, mostly located in the South, reveals the classic added worker effect: Longer intervals of husbands' unemployment—not counting work missed on account of illness—led to a greater share of wives taking paid employment outside the home. The analysis also shows that household structure and composition, as well as the health of husbands, influenced the decision of wives to enter the labor force. The data and analysis provide some of first econometric evidence about the labor-force decisions of urban-dwelling blacks in late nineteenth-century America.

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