Some Effects of The English Unemployment Insurance Acts on the Number of Unemployed Relieved Under the Poor Law

Helen Leland Witmer

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1931, vol. 45, issue 2, 262-288

Abstract: Introductory survey of legislation, 262. — I. Developments 1920–1926, 265. — The Act of 1927, 273. — II. Leniency of Boards of Guardians not an adequate explanation of conditions, 275. — III. Extent of overlapping of Poor Law and Insurance System, 280. — Analysis of recipients of aid from both, 285. — Conclusion, 287.

Date: 1931
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