Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Andriana Bellou, University of Montreal; Emanuela Cardia, University of Montreal
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Project Citation:
Bellou, Andriana, and Cardia, Emanuela. Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-11-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E127501V1
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Summary:
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The life-cycle labor
supply of women born at the turn of the 20th century diverged
sharply from previous cohorts. Although they had similar participation rates in
early adulthood, younger cohorts were significantly more likely to work at
middle age. This paper documents a link between these changing patterns of
female labor supply and the Great Depression. We find that the onset of the Great
Depression led to an increase in young women’s employment in 1930 via an
added-worker effect. Cohorts induced into the workforce in the early 1930s had
significantly higher employment rates through the 1940s and 1950s of up to 3
percentage points, suggesting a permanent impact of the Great Depression on women’s
lifecycle labor supply.
Funding Sources:
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
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