Revisiting Women's Labor Force Participation in Catalonia (1920–36)
利用人口普查与劳动普查的个体数据匹配，纠正了20世纪初加泰罗尼亚纺织业女性劳动参与率的低估，并重新检验了新古典劳动经济学对女性劳动参与的解释。
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.