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La tasa de actividad femenina en el siglo xviii en dos municipios andaluces: Laujar de Andarax (Almería) y Úbeda (Jaén)

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  • Luis Garrido-González

    (Catedrático de Historia e Instituciones Económicas, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, España)

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This article analyses the female labour participation rates of Laujar de Andarax (Almería) and Úbeda (Jaén), both in Andalusia, in the mid-eighteenth century, representative locations of manufacturing activity linked to wool textile in the South of Spain. A database was composed including 12,195 inhabitants using the records of the Ensenada Cadastre of 1751-1752. The impact of the demand factors was established: A local economy with a relatively stronger presence of the secondary and tertiary sector, especially the textile sector; and the supply factors: life cycles, marital status, number of children, occupation and age of husbands. This study concludes that the female activity rates were 54.2% in Laujar, and 27.4% in Úbeda, and the 2 most important occupations were in the textile industry and domestic service. The local perspective shows that demand factors had a strong influence. KEY Classification-JEL: J16. J21. J82. R23

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  • Luis Garrido-González, 2016. "La tasa de actividad femenina en el siglo xviii en dos municipios andaluces: Laujar de Andarax (Almería) y Úbeda (Jaén)," Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, Asociación Española de Historia Económica, vol. 12(03), pages 144-153.
    • Handle: RePEc:ahe:invest:v:12:y:2016:i:03:p:144-153
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    Keywords

    Tasa de actividad femenina. Desigualdad del mercado laboral. Andalucía siglo xviii;

    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J82 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Labor Force Composition
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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