Industry Employment (industry + employment)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Cottage industry, migration, and marriage in nineteenth-century England

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2008
NIGEL GOOSE
There has been considerable debate concerning the impact of the industrial employment of women upon their demographic behaviour in nineteenth-century England. This article assesses the impact of employment in the cottage industry of straw plait and hat making in the county of Hertfordshire, comparing and contrasting districts where the industry was prominent with those where it was not. It is discovered that in 1851 the availability of straw industry employment encouraged earlier marriage, most notably in those parishes where the industry was particularly heavily concentrated, although overall levels of nuptiality and proportions ultimately marrying were similar in straw and non-straw areas alike. By 1871, however, the skewed sex ratio that such employment produced among young adults served to offset this positive effect. As the industry waned in the later nineteenth century, the experience of different regions of the county converged, while throughout the period the data suggest that urban/rural contrasts and the suburbanization of London produced more stark contrasts in female marriage patterns than did the availability of cottage industry employment. [source]


The Economic Impact of Sports Stadium Construction: The Case of the Construction Industry in St. Louis, MO

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2002
Phillip A. Miller
This article examines the St. Louis construction industry's employment with special attention given to the periods during which the Kiel Center and the Trans World Dome were being built. We analyze whether the construction of a major sports stadium increases construction industry employment. An econometric model is developed to explain the times series trend of construction industry employment in the St. Louis SMSA. The statistical evidence suggests that the levels of employment in the construction industry were neither higher nor lower during the construction of these stadia. It is argued that construction on these projects merely substituted for other construction projects in this SMSA. [source]


THE ASTONISHING REGULARITY OF SERVICE EMPLOYMENT EXPANSION

METROECONOMICA, Issue 3 2007
Ronald Schettkat
ABSTRACT An update of Victor Fuchs analysis shows an astonishing regularity of the relationship between per capita income and service industry employment. The two major theoretical hypotheses for the growth of the service sector, shifts in final demand towards services and the technological stagnancy of services, are then analyzed. Theories achieve simplicity and clarity from radical assumptions and it is therefore not surprising that empirically both dimensions are relevant. Shifts in final demand to services,especially of private consumption, however, gained importance over the last decades indicating a fundamental change of the division of labor: the marketization of household production, which is analyzed finally. [source]


Unionisation structures and innovation incentives*

THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 494 2004
Justus Haucap
This paper examines how different unionisation structures affect firms' innovation incentives and industry employment. We distinguish three modes of unionisation with increasing degree of centralisation: (1) ,decentralisation' where wages are determined independently at the firm-level, (2) ,coordination' where one industry union sets individual wages for all firms and (3) ,centralisation' where an industry union sets a uniform wage rate for all firms. While firms' investment incentives are largest under ,centralisation', investment incentives are non-monotone in the degree of centralisation: ,decentralisation' carries higher investment incentives than ,coordination'. Labour market policy can spur innovation by decentralising unionisation structures or through non-discrimination rules. [source]


The Economic Impact of Sports Stadium Construction: The Case of the Construction Industry in St. Louis, MO

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2002
Phillip A. Miller
This article examines the St. Louis construction industry's employment with special attention given to the periods during which the Kiel Center and the Trans World Dome were being built. We analyze whether the construction of a major sports stadium increases construction industry employment. An econometric model is developed to explain the times series trend of construction industry employment in the St. Louis SMSA. The statistical evidence suggests that the levels of employment in the construction industry were neither higher nor lower during the construction of these stadia. It is argued that construction on these projects merely substituted for other construction projects in this SMSA. [source]