Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective

1 Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective: An Overview.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Emergence of the Problem.- 3 Aggregate Unemployment Statistics.- 4 Labour Demand and Supply.- 5 Unemployment and Labour Market Adjustment.- 6 The Incidence of Unemployment.- 7 Labour Turnover and Unemployment Duration.- 8 The Effects of Unemployment.- 9 Conclusion.- 2 The Macroeconomics of the Interwar Years: International Comparisons.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Relative International Performance in the Great Depression.- 3 A Model of the Open Economy, World Prices Given.- 4 Estimation Results.- 5 The World.- 6 Concluding Remarks.- 3 Labour Market Structure and the Nature of Unemployment in Interwar Britain.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Stocks, Flows and Duration of Unemployment.- 3 Who Were the Unemployed?.- 4 Unemployment in the 1930s and the 1980s: Some Comparisons.- 5 The Causes of Long-Term Unemployment.- 6 The Sources of Rapid Turnover.- 7 Conclusion.- 4 Unemployment, Insurance and Health in Interwar Britain.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Causes of Poverty.- 3 The Results of Unemployment.- 4 Unemployment and Stature.- 5 National Socialist Economics: The Wirtschaftswunder Reconsidered.- 1 Introduction.- 2 National Socialist Work Creation Measures, 1933-35.- 3 National Socialist Labour Market Statistics.- 6 Unemployment in the 1930s: The Case of Italy.- 1 The Great Depression and Unemployment: An Unexplored Territory.- 2 Italy's Labour Market Between the Wars.- 3 Measuring Industrial Unemployment.- 4 Fascism and Unemployment.- 5 An Appraisal of Labour Policies.- 6 Unemployment and Wages.- 7 Some Concluding Remarks.- 7 Why Was Unemployment so Low in France During the 1930s?.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Macroeconomic Developments and the Labour Market Statistics.- 3 The Measurement of French Unemployment.- 4 Analysis by Occupation and by Departement of Unemployment in France During the 1930s.- 5 The Employment Relationship and Unemployment in the 1930s.- 6 Conclusion.- 8 Interwar Unemployment in Belgium.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Institutional Aspects of Unemployment in Belgium, 1920-39: The System of Voluntary Unemployment Insurance.- 3 Quantitative Aspects of Unemployment in Belgium, 1920-39.- 4 Structural Aspects of Unemployment in Belgium, 1930-37.- 5 Conclusion.- 9 Interwar Unemployment in the United States: Evidence from the 1940 Census Sample.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Data.- 3 Multivariate Analysis.- 4 Implications.- 5 The Added Worker Effect: Labour Force Participation of Married Women.- 6 Concluding Remarks.- 10 Unemployment and Relief in Canada.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Incidence of Unemployment.- 3 Coping with the Depression.- 4 Conclusions.- 11 The Australian and US Labour Markets in the 1930s.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Australian-US Comparisons.- 3 Further Observations on Unemployment in Australia.- 4 Conclusion.