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Unemployment in Interwar Britain: New Evidence from London

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  • Eichengreen, Barry

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This paper reassesses the pattern of unemployment in interwar Britain from a microeconomic perspective. A 10 per cent sample of some 27,000 case record cards completed in 1929-31 as part of the New Survey of London Life and Labour is used as a basis for cross-section analysis of unemployment incidence among adult male wage earners. To provide a basis for comparison, these results for the interwar period are set against a comparable analysis for the postwar years using the General Household Survey for 1975. The findings indicate that unemployment was concentrated among certain segments of the labour force and suggest that a disproportionate burden was borne by the poor and disadvantaged, thus providing the first systematic support for those views of contemporary observers so often invoked by subsequent historians.

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  • Eichengreen, Barry, 1985. "Unemployment in Interwar Britain: New Evidence from London," CEPR Discussion Papers 85, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:85
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