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Industrial Employment in the Present Business Cycle

William A. Berridge

The Review of Economics and Statistics 1923

ships, nor have we ever intended to imply that they do. Lack of information even among the authorities on the subject as to the latent merits of employment data and the cyclical behavior of employment itself created a situation which called forth the emphatic statement of those points. Since I92I, employment statistics have received much attention. Numerous writers and observers of business conditions have come to use employment data of various kinds, often expecting too much from them and using them erroneously. Indeed the significance of employment fluctuations cannot fully be realized except by studying their relations to those of other economic factors. The purpose of the present article is briefly to review some of the most important relations. In doing so, we may first present our revised index of employment, to supplement the

DOI
10.2307/1927786
Volume
5 (4)
Pages
292
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