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General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering

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dc.creator Hart, Robert A.
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:12Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:12Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20044
dc.identifier ppn:366025481
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20044
dc.description The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most cataclysmic negative output shock occurred in 1929/30. At this time, easily the most important source of United Kingdom general training was the apprenticeship system. Using data collected by the Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF), this paper examines the impact of the Great Depression on numbers of apprentices and skilled journeymen. Statistics cover eight skilled engineering occupations in 38 local labour markets over the period 1928- 1938. Relative employment adjustment responses of apprentices and journeymen accord well with general human capital arguments.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 799
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject N34
dc.subject E24
dc.subject J24
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject general human capital
dc.subject British engineering
dc.subject Great Depression
dc.subject employment adjustments
dc.subject Betriebliche Bildungsarbeit
dc.subject Ingenieure
dc.subject Arbeitsnachfrage
dc.subject Anpassung
dc.subject Konjunktur
dc.subject Wirtschaftsgeschichte
dc.subject Bildungsinvestition
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Großbritannien
dc.title General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1902-1938


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