Joyce Burnette
Biographic Data
| ID | 3946489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Burnette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnette |
| SIGNATURE | BURNETTE J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| 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
Understanding the Gender Gap Further: The Case of Turn-of-the-Century Swedish Compositors
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 …
Child day-labourers in agriculture: Evidence From Farm Accounts, 1740-18501
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…
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: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution
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…
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: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution
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…
Testing for Occupational Crowding in Eighteenth-Century British Agriculture
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: Evidence From Farm Accounts, 1740-18501
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…
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: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution
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…
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…
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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
Child day-labourers in agriculture: Evidence From Farm Accounts, 1740-18501
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: The Case of Turn-of-the-Century Swedish Compositors
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…
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory
Economics (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Wage (8 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Agricultural economics (4 works) · Industrial Revolution (4 works)