La tasa de actividad femenina en el siglo xviii en dos municipios andaluces: Laujar de Andarax (Almería) y Úbeda (Jaén)

Luis Garrido-González
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Luis Garrido-González: Catedrático de Historia e Instituciones Económicas, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, España

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2016, vol. 12, issue 03, 144-153

Abstract: This article analyses the female labour participation rates of Laujar de Andarax (Almería) and Úbeda (Jaén), both in Andalusia, in the mid-eighteenth century, representative locations of manufacturing activity linked to wool textile in the South of Spain. A database was composed including 12,195 inhabitants using the records of the Ensenada Cadastre of 1751-1752. The impact of the demand factors was established: 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, number of children, occupation and age of husbands. This study concludes that the female activity rates were 54.2% in Laujar, and 27.4% in Úbeda, and the 2 most important occupations were in the textile industry and domestic service. The local perspective shows that demand factors had a strong influence. KEY Classification-JEL: J16. J21. J82. R23

Keywords: Tasa; de; actividad; femenina.; Desigualdad; del; mercado; laboral.; Andalucía; siglo; xviii (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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