Industrial Characteristics and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

Chulhee Lee

Working Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University

Abstract: This study explores how industry-specific technological, organizational, and managerial features affected the employment of older male manufacturing workers in the early-twentieth-century United States. Industrial characteristics that were favorably related to the employment of older industrial workers include: higher labor productivity, less capital- and material-intensive production, a shorter workday, lower intensity of work, greater job flexibility, and more formalized employment relationship. The technological transformations in the Industrial Era probably brought mixed consequences to the labor-market status of older workers, and the experiences of individual workers were heterogeneous.

Keywords: migration; occupational mobility; Union Army; veteran; training; peer effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J62 N31 N41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05
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