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The Poor Law, Migration, And Economic Growth, George R. Boyer

George R. Boyer

The loss to the English economy caused by decreased migration resulting from relief payments to agricultural laborers is estimated. I conclude that, at worst, the Poor Law had a small negative impact on national product. If poor relief and wages were substitutes, the Poor Law may have had a positive impact on capital formation and economic growth.

Unemployment And The Uk Labour Market Before, During And After The Golden Age, Timothy J. Hatton, George R. Boyer

George R. Boyer

During the ‘golden age’ of the 1950s and 1960s unemployment in Britain averaged 2 per cent. This was far lower than ever before or since and a number of hypotheses have been put forward to account for this unique period in labour market history. But there has been little attempt to isolate precisely how the determinants of wage setting and unemployment differed before, during and after the golden age. We estimate a two-equation model over the whole period from 1872 to 1999 using a newly constructed set of long-run labour market data. We find that the structure of real wage …

New Estimates Of British Unemployment, 1870-1913, George R. Boyer, Timothy J. Hatton

George R. Boyer

We present new estimates of the British industrial unemployment rate for 1870- 1913, which improve on the Board of Trade's prior estimates. We use similar sources, but our series includes additional industrial sectors, allows for short-time working, and aggregates the various sectors using appropriate labor-force weights from the census. The resulting index suggests a rate of industrial unemployment that was generally higher, but less volatile, than the board's index. We then adjust our series to an economywide basis, and construct a consistent time series of overall unemployment for 1870-1999.

Monetary Policy Essay, Dan Brocklehurst

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Not So Black And White: The Color Of Perception In Corporate Layoffs, Carole A. Isom

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This research addressed the question of whether or not the perception exists that African Americans are disproportionately impacted during layoff periods within corporations. Portraiture was the selected method of inquiry for this research as it captures the experience of the participants and enables storytelling which is based upon perception as opposed to hard, quantitative data. Additionally, portraiture’s autobiographical roots supported my autoethnographic position, encouraging the artistic process while including aesthetic aspects. Portraiture allowed for the voice of the researcher everywhere: in the assumptions, preoccupations, and frameworks brought to the inquiry; in the questions asked; in the data gathered; in the …

A Descriptive Analysis Of Layoffs In Large U.S. Firms Using Archival Data Over Three Decades And Interviews With Senior Managers, Kevin F. Hallock

Kevin F Hallock

This paper uses data on over 4,600 layoff announcements in the U.S., covering each firm that ever existed in the Fortune 500 between 1970 and 2000, along with 40 interviews of senior managers in 2001 and 2002 to describe layoffs in large U.S. firms over this period. In order to motivate further work in the area, I investigate six main issues related to layoffs: timing of layoffs, reasons for layoffs, the actual execution of layoffs, international workers, labor unions, and the types of workers by occupation and compensation categories. The paper draws on literature from many fields to help further …

In Search Of A New Identity: Shiga Shigetaka's Recommendations For Japanese In Hawai'i, Masako Gavin

Masako Gavin

Extract: After the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), over-population and unemployment became pressing issues in Japan. Many intellectuals were concerned about the social and economic hardships caused by these problems and advocated solving them through emigration. The prominent journalist and a professor of geography at the Tokyo Senmon Gakkô (presently Waseda University), Shiga Shigetaka (1863-1927), believed Hawai’i was an ideal migration destination for the unemployed and impoverished Japanese.

The Ugly Side Of The Beautiful Game - Hooliganism In French Football, Carlos Josue Amado

Theses and Dissertations

Football violence was a rare phenomenon in France until the nineteen eighties. Harsh economic times coupled with the challenges of unemployment brought a different type of fanatic to football stadia. To vent their frustration about the economic difficulties of their time, some fans found an easy scapegoat: the increasing number of African immigrants in France. These fans, known as hooligans, have become organized and can be found supporting most major French football clubs, disrupting what once was a relatively tranquil national pastime. This thesis traces their development in France, looks at what they borrowed from Italian and English fan groups, …

The Crisis In The Steel Industry, Mike Donaldson, T. Donaldson

Mike Donaldson

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) Australia's largest corporation, had a virtual monopoly on the steel industry in Australia. In the early 1980's it set about decimating its workforce, blaming an economic downturn, and demanding massive and unusual handouts from the Australian Government. This article exposes the myth of the 'crisis' in the steel industry, and reveals instead that the BHP, embarked upon a modernisation of its plant, held its workforce to ransom to extort concessions from the Government. It then destroyed nearly 4,000 jobs at its Port Kembla steelworks in Wollongong.

The Cultural Context Of Youth Suicide In Australia: Unemployment, Identity And Gender, Heidi E. Gilchrist, Glennys Howarth, Gerard Sullivan

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This article considers the impact, in terms of life and death choices, of the economicexclusion of young people in Australia, where suicide is the leading cause of deathby injury. In the two decades from 1980 there was a dramatic increase in suiciderates for young males. Research demonstrates a correlation between youth suicideand unemployment but the complex relationship between the two has not been fullyinvestigated. This article explores the perceptions of young people, parents and serviceproviders of the cultural context of suicide and how it comes to be constructed as anoption for young people experiencing economic marginalisation.I n

Unemployment And Labor Force Participation Rates Among Racial/Ethnic Groups And Latino Nationalities In The New York Metro Area And The Five Boroughs, Laura Limonic

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

Introduction:

This report details the unemployment rates among Latino origin groups and racial/ethnic groups in the New York Metro area. The data are broken down by boroughs and by the eight largest Latino origin groups in New York: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Cubans, Colombians, Guatemalans, Peruvians and Ecuadorians.

Methods:

The data for this report were derived from the 2005 American Community Survey published by the U.S. Census Bureau. Data examined in this report are unemployment rates and rates of labor force non-participation rates. The U.S. Census classifies those not in the labor force as anyone who is not working nor …

Theoretical Explanations Of Persistent Black Youth Unemployment, Rhonda M. Williams

Trotter Review

This essay reviews and briefly summarizes three theoretical models used most often to explain two decades of persistently high unemployment among black youth and declining rates of male labor-force participation: neoclassical, Keynesian/neo-Keynesian, and radical perspectives. Based on a review of these models, it offers an alternative approach to explaining and analyzing black youth unemployment.

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Cb International 1994, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.

Poverty Amid Renewed Affluence: The Poor Of New England At Mid-Decade, Andrew M. Sum, Paul E. Harrington, William B. Goedicke, Robert Vinson

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article examines the problem of poverty in New England during the current period of economic prosperity. Major trends in the size and composition of the poor population within the region are analyzed. Striking changes in the relative incidence of poverty have occurred among families in New England. As the economy has moved toward full employment, poverty rates among husband-wife families in the region have fallen sharply. In contrast, female-headed families in New England have not benefited substantially from recent rapid increases in employment opportunities. The result has been a persistent trend toward the feminization of poverty in New England. …

The Recession, Technological And Social Change In A Regional Economy: The Steel Industry In Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Mike Donaldson

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper tells the story of the downturn in the steel industry in the early 1980's and its effects on Wollongong, a 'steel city' in Australia. It analyses the responses of the organised working class through its trade unions, community organisations and political parties and their efforts to confront mounting levels of unemployment by developing strategic alliances with small businesses and the local state.

When There Is No Work, Charles D. Dolph

Psychology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Crisis In The Steel Industry, Mike Donaldson, T. Donaldson

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) Australia's largest corporation, had a virtual monopoly on the steel industry in Australia. In the early 1980's it set about decimating its workforce, blaming an economic downturn, and demanding massive and unusual handouts from the Australian Government. This article exposes the myth of the 'crisis' in the steel industry, and reveals instead that the BHP, embarked upon a modernisation of its plant, held its workforce to ransom to extort concessions from the Government. It then destroyed nearly 4,000 jobs at its Port Kembla steelworks in Wollongong.

When There Is No Work, Charles D. Dolph

Charles D. Dolph, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Guest Workers As An "Automatic Stabilizer" Of Cyclical Unemployment In Switzerland, W. E. Kuhn

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In the early 1970's, in excess of 5 percent of the total population of France, Germany, Britain, and Switzerland were immigrants, The extreme case was Switzerland, where one person in six had come from a foreign country. Between them, the four mentioned countries had nearly 10 million immigrants; this accounts for more than nine-tenths of the West European total of nearly 11 million. This estimate may be on the low side; Feurer indicates that in 1972 some 8 million guest workers lived in Europe who together with their families comprised about 13 million people, contributing some Sfr. 80 billion (about …

Concept Sketchbook, January-June 1976, John Fischetti

Notebooks

A concept sketchbook created by editorial cartoonist, John R. Fischetti with content from January through June 1976 containing preliminary sketches of political cartoons and ideas for his daily editorial cartoons. Topics include: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, the recession, and Richard Nixon.

Concept Sketchbook, March-August 1975, John Fischetti

Notebooks

A concept sketchbook created by editorial cartoonist, John R. Fischetti with content from March through August 1975 containing preliminary sketches of political cartoons and ideas for his daily editorial cartoons. Topics include: Richard J. Daley, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, and the Vietnam War.

Concept Sketchbook, November 1974-March 1975, John Fischetti

Notebooks

A concept sketchbook created by editorial cartoonist, John R. Fischetti with content from November 1974 through March 1975 containing preliminary sketches of political cartoons and ideas for his daily editorial cartoons. Topics include: AT&T, Arab-Israeli conflicts, Richard J. Daley, and the Watergate Affair.

Concept Sketchbook, January-March 1970, John Fischetti

Notebooks

A concept sketchbook created by editorial cartoonist, John R. Fischetti with content from January through March 1970 containing preliminary sketches of political cartoons and ideas for his daily editorial cartoons. Topics include: Spiro Agnew, Chicago Seven Trial, inflation, military spending, and the Vietnam War.

An Economic Analysis Of Labor Mobility In Utah County, Utah, Michael C. Haynes

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an inquiry into the problem of labor mobility in Utah County, Utah. Utah County has been designated as an area of substantial unemployment by the federal government. This thesis suggests one means to lessen this unemployment is through better mobility of the work force in Utah County.

Concept Sketchbook, December 1962-Spring 1963, John Fischetti

Notebooks

A concept sketchbook created by editorial cartoonist, John R. Fischetti with content from December 1962 through Spring 1963 containing preliminary sketches of political cartoons and ideas for his daily editorial cartoons. Topics include: John F. Kennedy, Ricard Nixon, and unemployment.

Letter, D. Palmer Patterson To E.B. Whitaker

Japanese American internment in Arkansas

Letter written by D. Palmer Patterson, Arkansas's director under the United States Employment Service, informing E. B. Whitaker, regional director of the War Relocation Authority in Arkansas, that the Governor would not allow Japanese Americans out of the camps to work in Arkansas.

Letter, From John M. Bramlette, Manager Ii, Utah Construction Company To D. Palmer Patterson

Japanese American internment in Arkansas

Letter written by John M. Bramlette, a manager with the Utah Construction Company to D. Palmer Patterson, Arkansas's Director for the United States Employment Service. The Utah Construction Company, constructing Norfork Dam, requested the use of 34 Japanese Americans to work on the dam's construction due to labor shortfall. Williams states that he will pay for housing and food at $.50 an hour during a 48-hour work week. Williams has been looking for laborers within a 50 mile radius and is still short of men.

Brief Study Of Working Conditions Of Colored Citizens In New Orleans Louisiana, Ernest J. Wright

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

No abstract provided.