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Jordnaturernas fördelning i Sveriges län år 1700. En rekonstruktion, samt en jämförelse med förhållandena vid 1500-talets mitt
(2020-08)
From the mid-16th to the early 20th century, Swedish farms were divided in
three cadastral categories: tax, crown and exempt land. In 1700, each category made up
for about a third of the farms, but precise information ...
Labour market conflicts in Scandinavia, c. 1900–1938: The scientific need to separate strikes and lockouts
(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 ...
Wage distribution within the Swedish State Railways, 1877–1951: Material and methods.
(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 ...
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
(2023-07)
In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological
choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing
an incredible wealth of data for a full population in ...
Unions, insurance and changing welfare states: The emergence of obligatory complementary income insurance in Sweden
(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 ...
Urbaniseringen av det regionala musiklivet
(2023-01)
This report seeks to explore the geographical spread of
music in Sweden during the last pre-pandemic year 2019.
Statistics from the 1980s are also presented. It was found that in
many regions there has been a reluctance ...
From Global to Local: Trade Shocks and Regional Growth in Italy During the First Globalization
(DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 2022-11)
Globalization can create winners and losers at the spatial level within national
economies. 1bis paper examines the economic impact of international trade on local
economies in the case of late nineteenth-century Italy. ...
The failed promise of freedom: Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
(2024-01)
Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after
emancipation from slavery? What were ex-slaves’ prospects to improve their socioeconomic
status after emancipation? To shed some light on these ...
Occupational structure in a black settler colony: Sierra Leone in 1831
(2024-01)
Occupational structure is a valuable proxy for economic development when
more direct indicators are lacking. This study employs occupational structure for the
Colony of Sierra Leone in 1831 with the aim of contributing ...
Did industrialization improve the skill composition of the population? Evidence from Sweden, 1870 to 1930
(2024-03)
This paper documents the changing skill composition during industrialization
in Sweden using population censuses and HISCO/HISCLASS scheme. The results
reveal a general shift from unskilled to more-skilled occupations, ...