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A multi-sectoral approach to the U.S. Great Depression [PDF]

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We document sectoral differences in changes in output, hours worked, prices, and nominal wages in the United States during the Great Depression. We explore whether contractionary monetary shocks combined with different degrees of nominal wage frictions ...
James C. MacGee, Pedro S. Amaral
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Criminals, Prostitutes, Vagrants and Drunkards: 1920s Carlton

open access: yesProvenance, 2006
In the 1920s the Melbourne suburb of Carlton was a squalid slum, a home to, amongst others, criminals, prostitutes, vagrants and drunkards. This essay locates three individuals whose lives were trapped within these depressing conditions. A mystery slowly
Jessica Stagnitti
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Wages, Productivity and Work Intensity in the Great Depression [PDF]

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We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity combined to ...
Julia Darby, Robert A Hart
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Could the Great Depression Repeat Itself in the 21St Century?

open access: yesMalaysian Management Journal, 2008
By 2031, it will be a century since the Great Depression, touted as the most dreadful depression in the history of U.S. and the rest of the world, had taken place.
Quah Chee Heong, Mohd Nazari Ismail
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LOCAL MONEY IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

open access: yesEssays in Economic and Business History, 2008
The Great Depression in the United States produced a great outpouring of local currencies as responses to various aspects of the economic crisis.
Loren Gatch
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The federal response to home mortgage distress: lessons from the Great Depression [PDF]

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This article examines the federal response to mortgage distress during the Great Depression: It documents features of the housing cycle of the 1920s and early 1930s, focusing on the growth of mortgage debt and the subsequent sharp increase in mortgage ...
David C. Wheelock
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