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New Estimates of British Unemployment, 1870-1913

dc.contributor.authorBoyer, George R.
dc.contributor.authorHatton, Timothy J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T17:27:16Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T17:27:16Z
dc.date.issued2002-09-01
dc.description.abstractWe 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.
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dc.identifier.other2403899
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/75884
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectunemployment
dc.subjectindustry
dc.subjectlabor market
dc.subjectGreat Britain
dc.subjecteconomics
dc.titleNew Estimates of British Unemployment, 1870-1913
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationBoyer, George R.: grb3@cornell.edu Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationHatton, Timothy J.: University of Essex

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