George Boyer

George R. Boyer is Professor of Labor Economics at Cornell University, and director of teaching at their institute of Labor Economics.

He is associate Editor of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and has been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and of Social Science History.^[1]

Works

Books

• An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750–1850; Cambridge University Press; 1990, 1993, held in 491 libraries according to WorldCat ^[2]

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• "The Trade Boards Act of 1909 and the Alleviation of Household Poverty" (with Jessica S. Bean) British Journal of Industrial Relations 47, no. 2 (2009): pp. 240–264
• "Poverty Among the Elderly in Late Victorian England" (with T. P. Schmidle) Economic History Review 62 (2), pp. 249–278 (2009)
• "Unemployment and the UK labour market before, during and after the Golden Age" (with Timothy J. Hatton) ; European Review of Economic History, 9, no. 1 (2005): 35-60
• "The evolution of unemployment relief in Great Britain" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 (3), pp. 393–433 (2004)
• "New estimates of British unemployment, 1870-1913" (with Timothy J. Hatton) Journal of Economic History 62 (3), pp. 643–675
• "The Development of the Neoclassical Tradition in Labor Economics (with Robert S. Smith) ; Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 54, 2 ; 2001
• "The Historical Background of the Communist Manifesto," ; Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12, 4 ; Fall 1998 151-174 (1998)
• "The Influence of London on Labor Markets in Southern England, 1830-1914" Social science history. 22, no. 3, (1998): 257-285
• "Migration and Labour Market Integration in Late Nineteenth-Century England and Wales," (with Timothy J. Hatton) ; Economic History Review, 50, 4 ; 1997 697-734
• "Poor relief, informal assistance, and short time during the Lancashire cotton famine" Explorations in Economic History 34 (1), pp. 56–76 (1997)
• "Labour migration in southern and eastern England, 1861-1901" European Review of Economic History, 1, no. 2 (1997): 191-215
• "The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain," (with Timothy J. Hatton and Roy Bailey) ; Economica, 61, 4 ; 1994 435-446
• "Malthus Was Right After All: Poor Relief and Birth Rates in Southeastern England," ; Journal of Political Economy, 97, 1 ; 1989 93-114
• "What Did Unions Do in Nineteenth Century Britain?," ; Journal of Economic History, 48, 2 ; 1988
• "The Poor Law, migration, and economic growth ( England)" Journal of Economic History" 46 (2), pp. 419–430 (1986)
• "An economic model of the English Poor Law circa 1780-1834" Explorations in Economic History 22 (2), pp. 129–167 (1985)

References

1. ^ George Boyer: Biography - Cornell University.
2. ^ WorldCat Results

External links

• Professor George Boyer reports on his international research