Engineering Earnings in Britain, 1914-68

Citation

Hart RA & MacKay DI (1975) Engineering Earnings in Britain, 1914-68. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A, 138 (1), pp. 32-50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2345248

Abstract
The paper presents weekly earnings data for the British engineering industryover 1914-68 and comparable unemployment statistics. Additional informationis provided to allow calculation of standard hourly and weekly earnings.The series cover the two key bargaining groups in the engineering industry,fitters and labourers, and 28 separate labour market areas across the wholegeographical space of Great Britain. The main purpose of the paper is toprovide an important additional source of earnings data which can be usedfor a variety of purposes, but a number of analyses of a particular subject,the regional earnings structure, is also undertaken.

Keywords
Engineering earnings; Hours of work; Unemployment; Local market areas; Historical coverage; Regional earnings structure

Journal
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A: Volume 138, Issue 1