Reconstructing the Pattern of American Unemployment before the First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9726366 |
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| Authors | John James (0009-0009-1009-0832, corresponding author), John A James |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 247 |
| Pages | 291 |
| Publication date | 1995-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2554869 |
| OpenAlex | W2013989776 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper calculates the distribution of unemployment duration lengths and transition rates for Massachusetts workers in the late nineteenth century. Using data on time spent out of work and assuming that the spell durations followed a Weibull distribution, the author parametrizes a model of the timing of transitions from unemployment to employment and vice versa. He then simulates the employment experience of representative workers and constructs distributions of completed spell lengths. The experience of most out-of-work workers in a year seems to have been in one rather long spell rather than in shorter multiple ones. Copyright 1995 by The London School of Economics and Political Science
Art · Construct (python library) · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Duration (music) · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Sociology · Spell · Statistics · Unemployment · Weibull distribution · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Mathematics
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