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When an Accountant Becomes a Taxi Driver: Unemployment, Labor Market Institutions, and Economic Theory

Year: 2025

Type: other

Abstract: Aaron Benanav (2025) History of Political Economy, 57, pp. 77-105, Open access Abstract. This article reconstructs the history of how economists came to understand unemployment as a distinct category and how that understanding transformed over time. In the early twentieth century, governments regulated access to unemployment benefits and established labor market protections, drawing sharper boundaries between employment and unemployment. Historians have shown that these boundaries were polit...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/14lbz

Author: GdL

Language: English

Topic: Historical Economic and Social Studies

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7080014108

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