Lyle (2004) "Women, War, and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Midcentury," Journal of Political Economy, 112(3): 495-551.Acemoglu, Daron, David H. Autor and David Lyle (2004): "Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage ...
The Wage Slave’s Glossary (Biblioasis) criticizes and analyzes what the Lowell Mill Girls were the first to name wage slavery. Joshua Glenn’s glossary of over 200 terms interrogates not only office jargon (from Bandwidth to Telecommuting) but labor-related slang and workplace terminology (from...
This paper examines the reasons behind a historic shift in the language couching the wage demands of two North American labor movements during the last twenty years of the 19th century -- the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor. We trace how the once dominant imagery of "wa...
The marginal productivity theory of wages, formulated in the late 19th century, holds that employers will hire workers of a particular type until the addition to total output made by the last, or marginal, worker to be hired equals the cost of hiring one more worker. The wage rate will equ...
We exploit the military mobilization for World War II to investigate the effects of female labor supply on the wage structure. The mobilization drew many women into the workforce permanently. But the impact was not uniform across states. In states with greater mobilization of men, women worked mo...
"Land, labor and the wage-rental ratio: factor price convergence in the late nineteenth century". International Economic Review 37 (1996): 499-530.O'Rourke, Kevin, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Land, labor and the wage-rental ratio: factor price convergence in the late ...
The meaning of WAGE is a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis —often used in plural. How to use wage in a sentence.
wage is hardly new. Boston ship carpenters came together in 1675 to demand higher pay. The American Federation of Labor, founded in 1886, proposed a general living wage that adequately supported a family and maintained a standard of living higher than the 19th-century European urbanworking class...
This shortage of high-skilled labor, like any shortage, reduces bothconsumerandproducer surplusin labor markets and imposes adeadweight losson society. At the maximum wage, the quantity of labor demanded by employers is greater than the quantity of labor high-skilled workers are willing to supply...
Delano Roosevelt said in 1933, five years before the first minimum wage became law, that “...by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level—I mean the wages of a decent living.” The first U.S. minimum wage was implemented in 1938 as part of theFair Labor Standards Act...