The role of gender in biased technical change: US manufacturing, 1850-1919

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: City University of New York (CUNY) System; City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School; Queens College NY (CUNY)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700021744
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 1090-1109
• 关键词: substitution; industrialization; separability; PRODUCTIVITY; EXISTENCE; index

摘要

Differential treatment of men and women in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century labor markets casts doubt on the common practice of adding male and female labor to create a single labor variable in the production function. This article shows that men and women must be disaggregated in the production function, and investigates the effects of inappropriate aggregation on the debate over the Habakkuk-Rothbarth labor scarcity hypothesis. With disaggregation, a female-using bias and an overall labor-using bias is found for the period 1850 through 1919. Technical change was male-neutral through 1900 and male-using thereafter.