La tasa de actividad femenina a mediados del siglo XIX en Andalucía: el caso de Antequera

Concepción Campos Luque
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Concepción Campos Luque: Facultad de Económicas, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, España

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2014, vol. 10, issue 03, 191-201

Abstract: This article studies the female labour force participation rates in a town of East Andalusia, Antequera, in the middle of the 19th century. Our data come from the 1857 census registers. We have composed a database including 27,184 inhabitants. Our analysis shows that the censuses underestimate the female labour force participation. We establish the impact of the demand factors: A local economy with a relatively stronger presence of the secondary and tertiary sector, especially the textile sector; and the supply factors: Life cycles, marital status, and number of children. This study concludes that the female activity rates are about 30%, and the 2 most important occupations are domestic service and textile industry. The local perspective shows that the demand factors have a strong influence. KEY Classification-JEL: R23. J16. J82

Keywords: Crisis; económicas.; Mercado; de; trabajo.; Tasa; de; actividad; femenina.; Género.; España; siglo; xix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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