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Revisiting Women's Labor Force Participation in Catalonia (1920--36)

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This study aims to reconstruct women's activity rates in the fourteen leading textile areas of Catalonia, which represented 20 percent of the Catalan textile labor force in the first third of the twentieth century. This contribution proposes to review explanations offered by neoclassical labor economics with regard to the determinants of women's labor participation. It assumes that some of these hypotheses stem from the frequent under reporting of women's activity, particularly those who are married with children. Nominative linkage techniques have been used to correct the underregistration of women's activity in the Enumerator Books with information from the Labor Census from each village. Descriptive as well as analytical statistics provide new estimates of women's activity rates for those villages and fresh interpretations on the labor supply behavior of women through the life cycle.

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  • Cristina Borderías, 2013. "Revisiting Women's Labor Force Participation in Catalonia (1920--36)," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(4), pages 224-242, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:19:y:2013:i:4:p:224-242
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2013.831181
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