New Estimates of British Unemployment, 1870-1913
dc.contributor.author | Boyer, George R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hatton, Timothy J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-17T17:27:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-17T17:27:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-09-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present new estimates of the British industrial unemployment rate for 1870- 1913, which improve on the Board of Trade's prior estimates. We use similar sources, but our series includes additional industrial sectors, allows for short-time working, and aggregates the various sectors using appropriate labor-force weights from the census. The resulting index suggests a rate of industrial unemployment that was generally higher, but less volatile, than the board's index. We then adjust our series to an economywide basis, and construct a consistent time series of overall unemployment for 1870-1999. | |
dc.description.legacydownloads | Boyer8_New_Estimates_of_British_Unemployment.pdf: 2660 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020. | |
dc.identifier.other | 2403899 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/75884 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.rights | Required Publisher Statement: © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | unemployment | |
dc.subject | industry | |
dc.subject | labor market | |
dc.subject | Great Britain | |
dc.subject | economics | |
dc.title | New Estimates of British Unemployment, 1870-1913 | |
dc.type | article | |
local.authorAffiliation | Boyer, George R.: grb3@cornell.edu Cornell University | |
local.authorAffiliation | Hatton, Timothy J.: University of Essex |
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