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Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The U.S. in 1890

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.
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When labor markets are subject to large demand or supply shocks, as was the case in the late nineteenth-century United States, geographic wage differentials may not be an accurate index of market integration. This article uses a conceptually more appealing measure—the elasticity of local labor supply—to compare the integration of urban labor markets for a variety of occupations in 1890. According to this measure, markets, for unskilled labor and skilled metal-working trades appear relatively well integrated in comparison to those for the skilled building trades.
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1991-06
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Cambridge University Press
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“Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The U.S. in 1890,” Journal of Economic History 51 (June 1991), 427-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700039048
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10.1017/S0022050700039048
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