Browsing Working Papers / Department of Economy and Society by Author "Hamark, Jesper"
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Industrial wages in mid-1880s Sweden: estimations beyond Bagge’s Wages in Sweden. Data, source and methods
Hamark, Jesper (2019-09)Most researchers interested in Swedish wages during early industrialization have used the seminal work Wages in Sweden from the 1930s as their point of departure. Whereas the material in Wages in Sweden solidly tracks ... -
Labour market conflicts in Scandinavia, c. 1900–1938: The scientific need to separate strikes and lockouts
Hamark, Jesper (2020-02)Research on labour markets conflicts has come a long way. Today we know that conflicts vary over business cycles and with the design of labour market institutions; they tend to cluster around wars and return in longer ... -
Unions, insurance and changing welfare states: The emergence of obligatory complementary income insurance in Sweden
Hamark, Jesper; Lapidus, John (2022-01)Why do unions that support comprehensive public unemployment insurance introduce the private alternative known as obligatory complementary income insurance (OCII)? In this article, we seek answers to how Swedish unions ... -
Wage distribution within the Swedish State Railways, 1877–1951: Material and methods.
Hamark, Jesper (2021-06)For nine decades, the Swedish State Railways (SJ) produced wage records containing all its permanent employees. SJ employed more people than any private employer in Sweden, and the records contain individual-level information ...