ABSTRACT

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 measure women’s work outside of modern, industrialized societies.

中文翻译：

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为什么我们不应该衡量前工业化国家的女性劳动力参与率

摘要

劳动力参与旨在衡量当代劳动力市场，过去在衡量工作，尤其是妇女的工作方面做得很差。当我们衡量劳动力参与时，我们忽略了供家庭使用的生产，忽略了工作强度的差异，并假设了大多数历史工作都没有的就业连续性。因此，我建议我们不应该使用劳动力参与来衡量现代工业化社会之外的女性工作。