Work Relief and the Labor Force Participation of Married Women in 1940
重新评估了大萧条末期已婚女性的附加劳动者效应,发现此前研究未考虑新政工作救济计划的影响,导致该效应被高估。
Economic analysis of the labor supply of married women has long emphasized the impact of the unemployment of husbands—the added worker effect. This article re-examines the magnitude of the added worker effect in the waning years of the Great Depression. Previous studies of the labor supply of married women during this period failed to take account of various institutional features of New Deal work relief programs, which reduced the size of the added worker effect.