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Robert A. Margo

Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860

207 pages, 40 tables  6 x 9  © 2000
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development

Cloth $37.50

ISBN: 9780226505077   Published March 2000

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Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Growth of Wages in Antebellum America: A Review
3. New Estimates of Nominal and Real Wages for the Antebellum Period
4. Intersectoral Efficiency: Farm-Nonfarm Wage Gaps
5. Geographic Aspects of Labor Market Integration before the Civil War
6. Wages in California during the Gold Rush
7. Antebellum Wages and Labor Markets: A New Interpretation
8. Postlude
Notes
References
Index
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