Unemployment and non-employment in interwar Britain

Britain already had a serious unemployment problem in the 1920s, but the situation worsened markedly after 1929. We investigate the cause of the higher rates of unemployment experienced throughout the 1930s. The most obvious explanation, that aggregate demand was weaker in the aftermath of the Great...

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Main Author: Butchart, E
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: University of Oxford 1997