From Survey to Sample

Labor Market Data for Interwar London

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11253239
AutoresBarry Eichengreen (0000-0002-1683-4486, Harvard University Press, autor de correspondencia), Susan Freiwald (Harvard University)
Año1985
Volumen18
Número4
Páginas125-136
Fecha de publicación1985-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistorical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0161-5440 • E-ISSN: 1940-1906
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01615440.1985.10594157
OpenAlexW1968018437
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas8

Economists engaged in theoretical and empirical work are divided over the extent to which labour market outcomes should be characterized as equilibrium or disequilibrium phenomena. To a remarkable extent, empirical tests of the competing views have been based on interwar data. Recent research on British unemployment in the interwar period has proven expecially controversial. This paper describes a new microdata set which can be used to study the operation of the British labour market and the incidence of interwar unemployment. The data set is a sample of households drawn from the records of the New Survey of London Life and Labour, conducted in the years 1928-32 at the London School of Economics. We describe the problems which arose in the course of our efforts to extract from the archives a random sample of cases and the ways these problems were resolved. We indicate also the limitations of the original survey design and their implications for economic and historical investigations attempting to utilize these materials

Census · Demographic economics · Disequilibrium · Economic growth · Economics · First world war · Interwar period · Labour economics · Microdata (statistics · Political science · Population · Sample (material · Sociology · Survey data collection · Survey sampling · Unemployment · World War II · Demography · Economic Theory and Institutions · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues · Law