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Title: Bad Luck or Bad Workers? A View of the Long-term Unemployed in the Great Depression through Matched Census Records

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: We use the 100% samples of the 1940, 1930, and 1920 Censuses to see how the unem- ployed in 1940 compared to other workers before the Depression, particularly the long-term unemployed. We also examined how emergency workers on programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) fared as former members of the unemployed. We match workers across Census waves and distinguish them along several dimensions, including age, race, skill, re- gion, occupation, industry, migration status, and local economic conditions. These matched records will allow us to see how much unemployment outcomes were determined by worker productivity versus having the bad luck in not having work during the Depression.

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Authors: Gaggl, Paul; Mathy, Gabriel, P

Publisher: University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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