Families at Work: An Analysis by Sex of Child Workers in the Cotton Textile Industry

Susan A. Matthies

The Journal of Economic History, 1982, vol. 42, issue 1, 173-180

Abstract: Differences in the school and work experience of young girls and boys are explained by factors related to the demand for household production including the presence of young children, boarders and lodgers, and home ownership. Gender based differences in job characteristics and hourly earnings associated with occupational segregation contributed to the observed pattern of higher schooling investment by girls and earlier work experience by boys.

Date: 1982
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