| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
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NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index. |
| Contents |
The growth of wages in Antebellum America: a review -- New estimates of nominal and real wages for the Antebellum period -- Instersectoral efficiency: farm-nonfarm wage gaps -- Geographic aspects of labor market integration before the Civil War -- Wages in California during the Gold Rush -- Antebellum wages and labor markets: a new interpretation. |
| Summary |
Research by economists and economic historians has greatly expanded our knowledge of labor markets and real wages in the United States since the Civil War, but the period from 1820 to 1860 has been far less studied. Robert Margo fills this gap by collecting and analyzing the payroll records of civilians hired by the United States Army and the 1850 and 1860 manuscript federal Censuses of Social Statistics. New wage series are constructed for three occupational groups--common laborers, artisans, and white-collar workers--in each of the four major census regions--Northeast, Midwest, South Atlantic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wages -- United States -- History.
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Wages. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Labor supply -- United States -- History.
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Labor supply. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Margo, Robert A. (Robert Andrew), 1954- Wages and labor markets in the United States, 1820-1860. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000 0226505073 9780226505077 (DLC) 99031175 (OCoLC)41285104 |
| ISBN |
9780226505022 (electronic book) |
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0226505022 (electronic book) |
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0226505073 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780226505077 |
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