Labor, wages, and living standards in Java, 1680–1914

Taking Gender Differnces in Bargaining Power Seriously: Equity, Labor Standards, and Living Wages

Gender inequality is linked to women’s unequal bargaining power in the household. Greater equity can be achieved by expanding women’s outside options. Paid work is a likely mechanism for improving women’s household bargaining power. But the dual phenomenon of women’s segregation in export industries in developing countries and increased firm mobility result in their unequal bargaining power vis...

Promoting Gender Equality through Labor Standards and Living Wages: An Exploration of the Issues

Emotional Labor and Wages 1 RUNNING HEAD : EMOTIONAL LABOR AND WAGES

The concept of emotional labor demands and their effects on workers has received considerable attention in recent years, with most studies concentrating on stress, burnout, satisfaction, or other affective outcomes. This study extends the literature by examining the relationship between emotional labor demands and wages at the occupational level by incorporating data on generalized work activit...

Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing∗

Using matched employer-employee data on 10 African countries, this paper examines the relationship beween wages, worker supervision, and labor productivity in manufacturing. Wages increase with Þrm size for both production workers and supervisors. We develop a two-tier model of supervision that can account for this stylized fact and we Þt the structural model to the data. Employee data is used ...

Farm wages and living standards in the Industrial Revolution: England, 1670-1869.

Using manuscript and secondary sources, this paper calculates a consistent series of day wages for male farm workers in England from 1670 to 1850. The new series differs considerably for the years 1790-1820 from the still widely used Bowley series. Wages are also estimated for four regions by quinquennia. The new series suggests that real agricultural wages showed little long term movement in t...