Existing estimates of the annual unemployment rate from 1870 to 1913 were constructed by the Board of Trade, initially … reconstruct sectoral unemployment rates based on union records and supplement this with (crude) estimates for certain other … deviation than the Board of Trade index. The wide swings in unemployment during the 1870s are confirmed but the amplitude of …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

market performance. We find that developments in wage setting institutions and in unemployment insurance inhibited a return …

The paper analyses the determinants of interwar unemployment using a previously unexploited quarterly data set for 1924 …-39. Individual equations for insured employment, insured unemployment and the nominal wage rate are estimated and tested. The results … interpretations which emphasize structural unemployment, wage rigidity or benefit-induced unemployment: this helps explain why such …