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Title: Using Simple Supply and Demand Models to Estimate the Impact of World War II on Female Workers

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Economists and economic historians seeking to explain what happened in the recent or distant past are often faced with data that is often limited to price and quantity, At a conference honoring Claudia Goldin, Nobel laureate Gary Becker stated that economists seem to have forgotten how much you can learn from the use of simple supply and demand models. Our goal in this paper is to use the basics of simple supply and demand models to develop estimates of the size of shifts in labor demand and labor supply for female and male workers over the course of the 1940s.

Url: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/seminars/papers/Fishback1021.pdf

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Authors: Shatnawi, Dina; Fishback, Price

Publisher: University of Arizona

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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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