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Industrial Characteristics and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

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  • Chulhee Lee

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This study explores how industry-specific technological, organizational, and managerial features affected the employment of older male manufacturing workers in the early-twentieth-century United States. Industrial characteristics that were favorably related to the employment of older industrial workers include: higher labor productivity, less capital- and material-intensive production, a shorter workday, lower intensity of work, greater job flexibility, and more formalized employment relationship. The technological transformations in the Industrial Era probably brought mixed consequences to the labor-market status of older workers, and the experiences of individual workers were heterogeneous.

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  • Chulhee Lee, 2012. "Industrial Characteristics and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States," Working Paper Series no82, Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University.
    • Handle: RePEc:snu:ioerwp:no82
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    migration; occupational mobility; Union Army; veteran; training; peer effect;
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    JEL classification:

    • N31 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
    • N41 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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