Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility in the Great Depression.
In historical studies of the labour market, one of the most extensively debated subjects has been unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1930s. According to a new panel data, the unemployment rate among construction workers in Helsinki was 45% in spite of extensive relief work. At the same...
| Published in: | Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 139 - 161 |
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Jun2008
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