Articles
Wealth and Welfare States: Is America a Laggard or Leader? By Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding., Industrial & Labor Relations Review (2011)
[Review of the book Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century], Articles and Chapters (2005)
[Excerpt] Lindert’s discussion of the costs and benefits of the welfare state is only one...
Unemployment and the UK Labour Market Before, During and After the Golden Age (with Timothy J. Hatton), Articles and Chapters (2005)
During the ‘golden age’ of the 1950s and 1960s unemployment in Britain averaged 2 per...
The Evolution of Unemployment Relief in Great Britain, Articles and Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] Relatively little has been written about unemployment relief during the period between the passage...
Comments on Geraghty, Márquez, and Vizcarra, Articles and Chapters (2003)
Professor Boyer reviews and comments upon the three dissertations that were finalists for the Alexander...
Contributions to Books
Labor Economics (with Robert Smith), Articles and Chapters (1998)
The authors hypothesize that most labor economists "sooner or later had to incorporate at least...
Regional Labour Market Integration in England and Wales, 1850-1913 (with Timothy J. Hatton), Articles and Chapters (1994)
[Excerpt] This chapter examines the integration of labour markets within the rural and urban sectors...
The Impact of Emigration on Real Wages in Ireland, 1850-1914 (with Timothy J. Halton and Kevin O'Rourke), Articles and Chapters (1994)
[Excerpt] The chapter is organized as follows. First, we examine the growth of Irish wages...
Other
[Review of the book Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain], Articles and Chapters (2000)
[Excerpt] While this volume contains some important pieces, it is uneven in quality, and several...
[Review of the book British Unemployment, 1919-1939: A Study in Public Policy], Articles and Chapters (1991)
[Excerpt] Garside's book fills an important gap in the literature on interwar unemployment by providing...
[Review of the book Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective], Articles and Chapters (1990)
[Excerpt] The book redresses two imbalances in the recent literature on interwar unemployment: its almost...
[Review of the book The Economics of the Industrial Revolution], Articles and Chapters (1986)
[Excerpt] This book contains a collection of papers on the causes and impact of the...
[Review of the book The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age], Articles and Chapters (1985)
[Excerpt] One must have some knowledge of a society's conception of poverty in order to...