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Browsing Faculty Publications - Labor Economics by Subject "Britain"
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How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved?
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter proposes tests of various notions of equality of opportunity and applies them to intergenerational income data for the United States and Britain. Agreement is widespread that equality of opportunity ... -
Migration and Labour Market Integration in Late Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
(1997-11-01)[Excerpt] There is a long and well established tradition of studies analysing the pattern and causes of internal migration and assessing the degree of labour market integration in late nineteenth-century Britain. Some ... -
Poor Relief, Informal Assistance, and Short Time During the Lancashire Cotton Famine
(1997-01-01)[Excerpt] This paper presents new evidence concerning the importance of poor relief as a source of income assistance for unemployed operatives during the Lancashire cotton famine. My comparison of weekly data on the number ... -
[Review of the book 'British Labour History, 1815-1914']
(1985-01-01)[Excerpt] One of the most important issues in economic history is the effect of industrialization on workers' living standards and on the development of labor movements and class consciousness. Because Great Britain was ... -
[Review of the book 'British Unemployment, 1919-1939: A Study in Public Policy']
(1991-10-01)[Excerpt] Garside's book fills an important gap in the literature on interwar unemployment by providing a comprehensive account of the various types of public policy that government officials, politicians, businessmen, and ... -
[Review of the book 'Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective']
(1990-04-01)[Excerpt] The book redresses two imbalances in the recent literature on interwar unemployment: its almost exclusive focus on the United States and Britain, and its predominantly macroeconomic nature. To achieve these goals, ... -
[Review of the book 'Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain']
(2000-10-01)[Excerpt] While this volume contains some important pieces, it is uneven in quality, and several of the papers, in my opinion, should have been omitted. Given the very high price of the book, the fact that it omits Pollard's ... -
[Review of the book 'The Economics of the Industrial Revolution']
(1986-07-01)[Excerpt] This book contains a collection of papers on the causes and impact of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. The authors are, with perhaps one exception, practitioners of the New Economic History, which relies on ... -
[Review of the book 'The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age']
(1985-07-01)[Excerpt] One must have some knowledge of a society's conception of poverty in order to understand the existence of differing methods of poor relief over time and place. In The Idea of Poverty, Gertrude Himmelfarb presents ... -
The Influence of London on Labor Markets in Southern England, 1830-1914
(1998-10-01)[Excerpt] Historians have long acknowledged that London, because of its enormous size and rapidly growing demand for labor, acted as a powerful magnet for migrants from throughout southern England. However, while there is ... -
The Old Poor Law and the Agricultural Labor Market in Southern England: An Empirical Analysis
(1986-03-01)The paper examines the economic role played by poor relief in early nineteenth-century England. A three-equation model is estimated to explain cross-parish variations in per capita relief expenditures, agricultural laborers' ... -
The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain
(1984-11-01)[Excerpt] This paper offers an historical dimension to the impact of trade unions on earnings by estimating the union wage effect in Britain in 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labor survey conducted at that ... -
What Did Unions Do in Nineteenth-Century Britain?
(1988-06-01)The article examines the development of the insurance function of trade unions. It analyzes how such policies worked, and why union benefit packages differed across occupations. It also addresses the impact of insurance ...
