ECON 426 Chapter Notes -Demand Shock, Ipums, Literature Review
1 Nov 2011
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Title: women, war, and wages: the effect of female labor supply on the wage structure at mid-century. Authors: daron acemoglu, david h. autor, david lyle. Keywords: female labour supply, wage structure, world war ii. Increase in female labour supply caused reduction in wages for both men and women. Literature review: main literature cited here is on wage inequality based on sex (e. g. acemoglu (1998) and bernard, andrew b. , jensen and schott (2001)) Frontier: study the relationship between female labour supply and cross-state mobilization rates. They look at the causal effects of increased female labour supply on male labour market outcomes. Data: 1 percent integrated public use microdata series (ipums) of the decennial censuses. More detailed hypotheses/facts/results/comments: only look at short-run elasticities between female labour supply and wages, elastic female labour demand. Increase in female labour supply causes wages to fall for both men and women.
