{"id":26043,"date":"2020-03-09T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=26043"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T18:21:53","slug":"black-death-lesson-immigration-will-discourage-women-from-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/black-death-lesson-immigration-will-discourage-women-from-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Death lesson: immigration will discourage women from working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37qqwtg\">&#8220;The Black Death: The World&#8217;s Most Devastating Plague&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/facultyStaff\/profiles\/promoted\/promotions-15\/Armstrong._Dorsey.html\">Dorsey Armstrong<\/a>, a professor at Purdue, includes a great lecture on economics. One of the effects of a reduction in population was a rise in wages. Market-clearing wages turned out to be high enough to induce women to work in much larger numbers than previously. This, in turn, was one reason it took hundreds of years for the European population to return to pre-Plague levels. Working women would elect to delay having children and would have fewer total children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via immigration and children of recent immigrants, the U.S. has been expanding its population, the reverse of what happened during the Black Death. Simultaneously, Americans are decrying (a) stagnant wages for the working class, (b) the lack of women in the workforce, and (c) the wages paid, specifically, to those who identify as women. 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