Female labor Force Participation in an Era of Organizational and Technological Change

Arbeitspapier

This paper examines the endogenous interaction between the rise in female labor force participation and changes in both the method and mode of production that occurred during the early part of the 20th century. Within a dynamic general equilibrium framework, an exogenous expansion in the skill level of the population induces an organizational change at the firm level and a redirection of investment towards new technologies that complement the skills of the emerging workforce. In addition to allowing for a change in the method of production in a market with directed technical change, a framework is developed to explicitly examine the transitional dynamics as skilled workers become relatively abundant. The rise in the skill level explains the rise in female labor force participation, the increase in women's wages and the decline of the clerical wage relative to manufacturing.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 1130

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; Macroeconomics: Production ; Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
• Thema: female labor force participation ; clerical work ; organizational change ; technological change ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Weibliche Arbeitskräfte ; Büroberufe ; Qualifikation ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Adshade, Marina
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Queen's University, Department of Economics
• (wo): Kingston (Ontario)
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/189406
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ