Meredith M Paker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1058859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith M Paker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith M |
| FAMILY NAME | Paker |
| SIGNATURE | PAKER M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9700-5195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression
This paper evaluates how a major policy shift—the suspension of the gold standard in September 1931—affected employment outcomes in interwar Britain. We use a new high-frequency industry-level dataset and difference-in-differences techniques to isolate the impact of devaluation on exporters. At the micro level, the break from gold reduced the unemployment rate by 2.7 percentage points for export-intensive industries relative to non-export industr…
Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England
Records of long-eighteenth-century English wage rates exhibit almost absolute nominal rigidity over many decades, alongside significant dispersion between the wages paid by different organizations for the same type of work in the same location. These features of preindustrial wages have been obscured by data aggregation and the construction of real wage series, which introduce variation. In this paper, we argue that the standard explanations for …
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution
How were unskilled workers selected and hired in preindustrial labor markets? We exploit records from the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London (1672-1748), to analyze the hiring and employment histories of over 1,000 general building laborers, the benchmark category of "unskilled" workers in long-run wage series. Despite volatile demand, St Paul's created a stable workforce by rewarding the tenure of long-standing workers. More senior worker…
Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England
Records of long-eighteenth-century English wage rates exhibit almost absolute nominal rigidity over many decades, alongside significant dispersion between the wages paid by different organizations for the same type of work in the same location. These features of preindustrial wages have been obscured by data aggregation and the construction of real wage series, which introduce variation. In this paper, we argue that the standard explanations for …
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution
How were unskilled workers selected and hired in preindustrial labor markets? We exploit records from the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London (1672-1748), to analyze the hiring and employment histories of over 1,000 general building laborers, the benchmark category of "unskilled" workers in long-run wage series. Despite volatile demand, St Paul's created a stable workforce by rewarding the tenure of long-standing workers. More senior worker…
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution
How were unskilled workers selected and hired in preindustrial labor markets? We exploit records from the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, London (1672-1748), to analyze the hiring and employment histories of over 1,000 general building laborers, the benchmark category of "unskilled" workers in long-run wage series. Despite volatile demand, St Paul's created a stable workforce by rewarding the tenure of long-standing workers. More senior worker…
Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England
Records of long-eighteenth-century English wage rates exhibit almost absolute nominal rigidity over many decades, alongside significant dispersion between the wages paid by different organizations for the same type of work in the same location. These features of preindustrial wages have been obscured by data aggregation and the construction of real wage series, which introduce variation. In this paper, we argue that the standard explanations for …
Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression
This paper evaluates how a major policy shift—the suspension of the gold standard in September 1931—affected employment outcomes in interwar Britain. We use a new high-frequency industry-level dataset and difference-in-differences techniques to isolate the impact of devaluation on exporters. At the micro level, the break from gold reduced the unemployment rate by 2.7 percentage points for export-intensive industries relative to non-export industr…
Economics (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Unemployment (2 works) · Wage (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 work) · Depression (economics (1 work) · Devaluation (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work)