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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

labour productivity do matter, but they go only part of the way towards explaining wide swings in average unemployment across … growth and the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU). Because productivity trends evolve slowly, such …-equation model of unemployment and wage setting, that incorporates productivity effects, is estimated over the whole period allowing …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …Following monetary union with the west in June 1990, the employment rate for east German 18-54 year olds fell from 89 …% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any …

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 …