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| Title: | | Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression  |
| Authors: | | Darby, Julia Hart, Robert A. |
| Issue Date: | | 2002 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 543 |
| Abstract: | | We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity combined to influence real wage growth. By contrast, the external effects of unemployment and replacement rates had much less impact. Empirical work is undertaken against the background of an efficient bargaining model that embraces employment, hours of work and work intensity. |
| Subjects: | | wages productivity work intensity Great Depression |
| JEL: | | N62 J31 J24 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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