Barry Eichengreen

Unemployment and Underemployment In Historical Perspective: Introduction

October 31, 1989 • Working Papers • By Barry Eichengreen

The problems involved are fundamentally historical. Labor market outcomes depend on institutions and conventions which have evolved in a fundamentally historical way. The emergence of implicit contracts and internal labor markets was a response to new industrial technologies and organizational forms which attached a growing premium to firm-specific skills… Read More

The Impact of Unions In The 1890s: The Case of The New Hampshire Shoe Industry

February 28, 1989 • Working Papers • By Barry Eichengreen and Steven Maddox

What follows are some informal observations under each heading. They are largely the product of casual observation and idle speculation rather than systematic research, and they by no means do justice to the voluminous literature in this diverse area.

Unemployment In Inter-War Britain

October 31, 1988 • Working Papers • By Barry Eichengreen

Interwar Unemployment In International Perspective

April 1, 1988 • Working Papers • By Barry Eichengreen and Tim Hatton

It is hard to know what to make of the comparison, for the literature on interwar unemployment is circumscribed by two serious limitations. A first limitation is that the recent literature is confined almost exclusively to the 1 experience of two countries: the United States and the United Kingdom. Read More

Juvenile Unemployment In 20th Century Britain: The Emergence of A Problem

September 30, 1987 • Working Papers • By Barry Eichengreen