Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20044 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 799
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
general human capital
British engineering
Great Depression
employment adjustments
JEL: 
N34
E24
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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