Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21385 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 543
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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

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