in Britain between 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labour survey conducted at that time. The determinants …

unemployment insurance on labour supply. A review of the evidence leads us to stress the importance of non-market clearing as the … labour immobility were not such an important cause of interwar unemployment as is sometimes thought. …This paper gives an overview of quantitative work on the interwar labour market, a topic which has received growing …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

to full employment in interwar Britain while in the US, New Deal legislation impeded labour market adjustment in the 1930 …We examine the labour market experience of the UK and the US in the recessions of the early 1920s and the early 1930s … the 1930s. A key ingredient to understanding these patterns is the interaction between economic shocks and labour market …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …