The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Facebook Inc; University of Arizona
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050718000232
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 539-574
• 关键词: labor supply elasticities; women; reassessment; micro

摘要

Most studies of female workers in the 1940s focus on labor supply. We use the basics of supply and demand to measure the impact of WWII on the short- and medium-run demand for female workers in manufacturing. Demand rose for both salaried and production female workers during the war and then fell after the war. However, the post-war demands for both groups were substantially higher than before the war and higher than the levels that would have been reached had the demands followed a counterfactual growth path from the boom period in the 1920s.