Data and Code: Industrial, Regional, and Gender Divides in British Unemployment Between the Wars
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Meredith Paker, Grinnell College
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Project Citation:
Paker, Meredith. Data and Code: Industrial, Regional, and Gender Divides in British Unemployment Between the Wars. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-04-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E199962V1
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Despite a substantial body of literature on the severe unemployment crisis in interwar Britain, our
understanding of its distributional impacts remains limited. Using newly-digitized government data,
this paper analyzes the gender, industrial, and regional composition of unemployment 1923–1936. I find
that the unemployment rate was higher for men owing in part to a strongly gender-segmented labor
market, that unemployment was widespread across industries and not just a product of the declining
staple industries, that unemployment exhibited strong seasonality, and that regional unemployment
differentials cannot be primarily attributed to regions’ varying industrial compositions. These results
offer a more granular view of this mass unemployment episode.
Scope of Project
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unemployment;
gender;
regions;
industry mix;
interwar Britain;
Great Depression
Geographic Coverage:
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Britain
Time Period(s):
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1923 – 1936
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