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Title: Unemployment in Interwar Britain: New Evidence from London

Author(s): Barry Eichengreen

Publication Date: November 1985

Keyword(s): Britain, Cross-Section Analysis and Interwar Unemployment

Programme Area(s): Human Resources

Abstract: 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, B. 1985. 'Unemployment in Interwar Britain: New Evidence from London'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=85