WORK RELIEF AND THE LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION OF MARRIED-WOMEN IN 1940

Authors
FINEGAN TA MARGO RA
Citation
Ta. Finegan et Ra. Margo, WORK RELIEF AND THE LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION OF MARRIED-WOMEN IN 1940, The Journal of economic history, 54(1), 1994, pp. 64-84
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Economics,"History of Social Sciences",History
Journal title
The Journal of economic history → ACNP
ISSN journal
00220507
Volume
54
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
64 - 84
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-0507(1994)54:1<64:WRATLP>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Economic analysis of the labor supply of married women has long emphas ized the impact of the unemployment of husbands-the added worker effec t. This article re-examines the magnitude of the added worker effect i n the waning years of the Great Depression. Previous studies of the la bor supply of married women during this period failed to take account of various institutional features of New Deal work relief programs, wh ich reduced the size of the added worker effect.