Browsing Working Papers by Author "Bateman, Fred"
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Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred (Vanderbilt University, 2000)Using unpublished manuscript census data for 1869/70 and 1879/80, we estimate that manufacturing establishments in the mid/late nineteenth century averaged about 10 months of fulltime operation per year; somewhat longer ...
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Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. (Vanderbilt University, 2001)Using unpublished data contained in samples from the manuscripts of the 1870 and 1880 censuses of manufactures, we examine the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late nineteenth century. These data ...
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Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. (Vanderbilt University, 2000)We use data from the manuscript census of manufacturing to estimate the effects of the length of the working day on output and wages. We find that the elasticity of output with respect to daily hours was positive but less ...
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Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. (Vanderbilt University, 2000)We use data from the manuscript censuses of manufacturing for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 to study the dispersion of average monthly wages across establishments. We find a marked increased in wage inequality over the period, ...