Jodie Burnette
Biographic Data
| ID | 260477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jodie Burnette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jodie |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnette |
| SIGNATURE | BURNETTE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wabash College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1491-4300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory
How not to measure the standard of living
While real male wages can be used to measure input costs, they do not provide accurate measures of the standard of living. This paper uses detailed accounts of nineteenth‐century European families collected by Le Play and his colleagues to demonstrate the importance of non‐market production for household consumption. If we measure income from all sources, including non‐market production, the British advantage in material consumption was only abou…
Missing work
Why we shouldn’t measure women’s labour force participation in pre-industrial countries
Labour force participation was designed to measure contemporary labour markets, and does a poor job of measuring work, particularly women’s work, in the past. When we measure labour force participation we ignore production for household use, ignore differences in the intensity of work, and assume a continuity of employment that did not characterize most historical work. Therefore, I suggest that we should not use labour force participation to mea…
Understanding the Gender Gap Further
To better understand the historical gender wage gap, we investigate the wages of Swedish compositors circa 1900 using a rich data set of matched employer-employee information with national coverage. In line with previous findings, women earned about 70 percent of men's wages on average. Individual and job characteristics explain much of this shortfall. Firm characteristics or firm fixed effects, on average, explain 17 percent of the gap, though t…
Estimating Historical Wage Profiles
In this article, researchers evaluate the empirical performance of the Mincer earnings equation, which has been the benchmark model for assessment of wage profiles since 1974. The analysis concerns workers in the manufacturing industry in three countries before 1900. The Mincer equation must be adjusted with respect to functional form in order to capture the wage profiles of past industrial workers. The quadratic spline consistently provides the …
Illuminating the Effects of Dynamic Lighting on Student Learning
Light is universally understood as essential to the human condition. Yet light quality varies substantially in nature and in controlled environments leading to questions of which artificial light characteristics facilitate maximum learning. Recent research has examined lighting variables of color temperature, and illumination for affecting sleep, mood, focus, motivation, concentration, and work and school performance. This has resulted in artific…
Was there a family gap in late nineteenth century manufacturing? Evidence from Sweden
While women today often face a substantial wage penalty for childbearing, we show that this was not always the case, making use of a rich material of matched employer-employee data covering the Swedish tobacco industry in 1898 in its entirety. Although working conditions were dire, and hours long, women working in the late nineteenth-century manufacturing industry faced no motherhood penalty. Compared to other women, mothers worked slightly less …
Child day-labourers in agriculture
While child labour has always been an important part of the industrial revolution story, there is little quantitative evidence about the number of child workers in the 1740-1850 period. This article estimates trends in the percentage of the agricultural day-labouring workforce that were children. By using the wage level to identify child workers, it is possible to estimate child labour for a large sample of English farms. It is found that girls w…
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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming wom…
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Journal Article Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain Get access Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Maxine Berg (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2005; pp. xvii + 373. £27; pb. £17). Joyce Burnette Joyce Burnette Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, April 2008, Pages 473–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/eh…
How skilled were English agricultural labourers in the early nineteenth century?1
Using the wage accounts of two different farms in the 1830s and 1840s, matched with census records to determine the age of the workers, this article estimates age-wage profiles for male and female agricultural labourers. Females earned less than males, and had less wage growth over their life cycles. Male wage profiles peaked at age 30-5, earlier than the wage profiles of workers today. Before the age of 30 wage growth was more rapid than increas…
The wages and employment of female day-labourers in English agriculture, 1740-18501
Using a new sample of farm accounts from 84 farms throughout England, this article provides measures of regional variation and changes over time in female wages and employment in agriculture. Female wages were not fixed, but changed over time and responded to high demand for female labour. The female-male wage ratio fell between 1750 and 1850, except in the industrial north west. In 1851 approximately 19 per cent of agricultural day-labourers wer…
Farm Production in England, 1700-1914 (review)
While historians generally agree that there was an agricultural revolution in English farming, they do not agree about when that revolution occurred. Traditionally, they have placed the agricultural revolution in the same period as the industrial revolution, approximately 1750 to 1850, and yet there are those who put it a century or more earlier. The debate about the timing of the agricultural revolution, though important for our understanding of…
Labourers at the Oakes
The wage book of a Derbyshire farm, which includes payments to laborers for 1772 to 1775 and 1831 to 1845, allows me to examine the employment patterns of male and female day-laborers at this farm before and after important innovations in agriculture. I find a fall in relative female employment which appears to be due to a fall in demand. Male employment shifted to the spring, but female employment maintained the same seasonal pattern. These seas…
An Investigation of the Female-Male Wage Gap During the Industrial Revolution in Britain
During the industrial revolution women's wages were substantially lower than men's. This article documents the wage gap and shows that in most cases it can be explained without reference to wage discrimination. First, the wage data we have overestimate the wage gap; correcting for biases due to measurement error reduces the size of the wage gap. Second, because differences in productivity were substantial, the corrected wage gap is consistent wit…
Exclusion and the Market
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Testing for Occupational Crowding in Eighteenth-Century British Agriculture
An Investigation of the Female-Male Wage Gap During the Industrial Revolution in Britain
During the industrial revolution women's wages were substantially lower than men's. This article documents the wage gap and shows that in most cases it can be explained without reference to wage discrimination. First, the wage data we have overestimate the wage gap; correcting for biases due to measurement error reduces the size of the wage gap. Second, because differences in productivity were substantial, the corrected wage gap is consistent wit…
The wages and employment of female day-labourers in English agriculture, 1740-18501
Using a new sample of farm accounts from 84 farms throughout England, this article provides measures of regional variation and changes over time in female wages and employment in agriculture. Female wages were not fixed, but changed over time and responded to high demand for female labour. The female-male wage ratio fell between 1750 and 1850, except in the industrial north west. In 1851 approximately 19 per cent of agricultural day-labourers wer…
Labourers at the Oakes
The wage book of a Derbyshire farm, which includes payments to laborers for 1772 to 1775 and 1831 to 1845, allows me to examine the employment patterns of male and female day-laborers at this farm before and after important innovations in agriculture. I find a fall in relative female employment which appears to be due to a fall in demand. Male employment shifted to the spring, but female employment maintained the same seasonal pattern. These seas…
How skilled were English agricultural labourers in the early nineteenth century?1
Using the wage accounts of two different farms in the 1830s and 1840s, matched with census records to determine the age of the workers, this article estimates age-wage profiles for male and female agricultural labourers. Females earned less than males, and had less wage growth over their life cycles. Male wage profiles peaked at age 30-5, earlier than the wage profiles of workers today. Before the age of 30 wage growth was more rapid than increas…
How not to measure the standard of living
While real male wages can be used to measure input costs, they do not provide accurate measures of the standard of living. This paper uses detailed accounts of nineteenth‐century European families collected by Le Play and his colleagues to demonstrate the importance of non‐market production for household consumption. If we measure income from all sources, including non‐market production, the British advantage in material consumption was only abou…
Testing for Occupational Crowding in Eighteenth-Century British Agriculture
Was there a family gap in late nineteenth century manufacturing? Evidence from Sweden
While women today often face a substantial wage penalty for childbearing, we show that this was not always the case, making use of a rich material of matched employer-employee data covering the Swedish tobacco industry in 1898 in its entirety. Although working conditions were dire, and hours long, women working in the late nineteenth-century manufacturing industry faced no motherhood penalty. Compared to other women, mothers worked slightly less …
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory
Estimating Historical Wage Profiles
In this article, researchers evaluate the empirical performance of the Mincer earnings equation, which has been the benchmark model for assessment of wage profiles since 1974. The analysis concerns workers in the manufacturing industry in three countries before 1900. The Mincer equation must be adjusted with respect to functional form in order to capture the wage profiles of past industrial workers. The quadratic spline consistently provides the …
Child day-labourers in agriculture
While child labour has always been an important part of the industrial revolution story, there is little quantitative evidence about the number of child workers in the 1740-1850 period. This article estimates trends in the percentage of the agricultural day-labouring workforce that were children. By using the wage level to identify child workers, it is possible to estimate child labour for a large sample of English farms. It is found that girls w…
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Journal Article Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain Get access Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Maxine Berg (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2005; pp. xvii + 373. £27; pb. £17). Joyce Burnette Joyce Burnette Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, April 2008, Pages 473–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/eh…
Exclusion and the Market
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Testing for Occupational Crowding in Eighteenth-Century British Agriculture
An Investigation of the Female-Male Wage Gap During the Industrial Revolution in Britain
During the industrial revolution women's wages were substantially lower than men's. This article documents the wage gap and shows that in most cases it can be explained without reference to wage discrimination. First, the wage data we have overestimate the wage gap; correcting for biases due to measurement error reduces the size of the wage gap. Second, because differences in productivity were substantial, the corrected wage gap is consistent wit…
Labourers at the Oakes
The wage book of a Derbyshire farm, which includes payments to laborers for 1772 to 1775 and 1831 to 1845, allows me to examine the employment patterns of male and female day-laborers at this farm before and after important innovations in agriculture. I find a fall in relative female employment which appears to be due to a fall in demand. Male employment shifted to the spring, but female employment maintained the same seasonal pattern. These seas…
Farm Production in England, 1700-1914 (review)
While historians generally agree that there was an agricultural revolution in English farming, they do not agree about when that revolution occurred. Traditionally, they have placed the agricultural revolution in the same period as the industrial revolution, approximately 1750 to 1850, and yet there are those who put it a century or more earlier. The debate about the timing of the agricultural revolution, though important for our understanding of…
The wages and employment of female day-labourers in English agriculture, 1740-18501
Using a new sample of farm accounts from 84 farms throughout England, this article provides measures of regional variation and changes over time in female wages and employment in agriculture. Female wages were not fixed, but changed over time and responded to high demand for female labour. The female-male wage ratio fell between 1750 and 1850, except in the industrial north west. In 1851 approximately 19 per cent of agricultural day-labourers wer…
How skilled were English agricultural labourers in the early nineteenth century?1
Using the wage accounts of two different farms in the 1830s and 1840s, matched with census records to determine the age of the workers, this article estimates age-wage profiles for male and female agricultural labourers. Females earned less than males, and had less wage growth over their life cycles. Male wage profiles peaked at age 30-5, earlier than the wage profiles of workers today. Before the age of 30 wage growth was more rapid than increas…
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming wom…
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Journal Article Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain Get access Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Maxine Berg (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2005; pp. xvii + 373. £27; pb. £17). Joyce Burnette Joyce Burnette Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 501, April 2008, Pages 473–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/eh…
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An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Illuminating the Effects of Dynamic Lighting on Student Learning
Light is universally understood as essential to the human condition. Yet light quality varies substantially in nature and in controlled environments leading to questions of which artificial light characteristics facilitate maximum learning. Recent research has examined lighting variables of color temperature, and illumination for affecting sleep, mood, focus, motivation, concentration, and work and school performance. This has resulted in artific…
Was there a family gap in late nineteenth century manufacturing? Evidence from Sweden
While women today often face a substantial wage penalty for childbearing, we show that this was not always the case, making use of a rich material of matched employer-employee data covering the Swedish tobacco industry in 1898 in its entirety. Although working conditions were dire, and hours long, women working in the late nineteenth-century manufacturing industry faced no motherhood penalty. Compared to other women, mothers worked slightly less …
Child day-labourers in agriculture
While child labour has always been an important part of the industrial revolution story, there is little quantitative evidence about the number of child workers in the 1740-1850 period. This article estimates trends in the percentage of the agricultural day-labouring workforce that were children. By using the wage level to identify child workers, it is possible to estimate child labour for a large sample of English farms. It is found that girls w…
Estimating Historical Wage Profiles
In this article, researchers evaluate the empirical performance of the Mincer earnings equation, which has been the benchmark model for assessment of wage profiles since 1974. The analysis concerns workers in the manufacturing industry in three countries before 1900. The Mincer equation must be adjusted with respect to functional form in order to capture the wage profiles of past industrial workers. The quadratic spline consistently provides the …
Understanding the Gender Gap Further
To better understand the historical gender wage gap, we investigate the wages of Swedish compositors circa 1900 using a rich data set of matched employer-employee information with national coverage. In line with previous findings, women earned about 70 percent of men's wages on average. Individual and job characteristics explain much of this shortfall. Firm characteristics or firm fixed effects, on average, explain 17 percent of the gap, though t…
Missing work
Why we shouldn’t measure women’s labour force participation in pre-industrial countries
Labour force participation was designed to measure contemporary labour markets, and does a poor job of measuring work, particularly women’s work, in the past. When we measure labour force participation we ignore production for household use, ignore differences in the intensity of work, and assume a continuity of employment that did not characterize most historical work. Therefore, I suggest that we should not use labour force participation to mea…
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory
How not to measure the standard of living
While real male wages can be used to measure input costs, they do not provide accurate measures of the standard of living. This paper uses detailed accounts of nineteenth‐century European families collected by Le Play and his colleagues to demonstrate the importance of non‐market production for household consumption. If we measure income from all sources, including non‐market production, the British advantage in material consumption was only abou…
Economics (16 works) · Labour economics (14 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (12 works) · Wage (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works)