Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s

Robert Margo

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, vol. 7, issue 2, 41-59

Abstract: Recent research on labor markets in the 1930s has shifted attention from aggregate to disaggregate time series and towards microeconomic evidence. The paper begins by reviewing the conventional statistics of the United States labor market during the Great Depression and the paradigms to explain them. It then turns to recent studies of employment and unemployment using disaggregated data of various types. The paper concludes with discussions of research on other aspects of labor markets in the 1930s and on a promising source of microdata for future work.

JEL-codes: E24 E32 N12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
Note: DOI: 10.1257/jep.7.2.41
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