From Survey to Sample
Labor Market Data for Interwar London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11253239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry Eichengreen (0000-0002-1683-4486, Harvard University Press, corresponding author), Susan Freiwald (Harvard University) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 125-136 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-5440 • E-ISSN: 1940-1906 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01615440.1985.10594157 |
| OpenAlex | W1968018437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Charles Booth's London
Labor Supply
Searching for an Explanation of Unemployment in Interwar Britain
Unemployment in Interwar Britain
Unemployment amongst Boys in Sheffield
Juvenile Unemployment in West Ham
What went Right with Juvenile Unemployment Policy between the Wars
Economic Growth in Britain in the Inter-War Tears
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 1993 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |