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The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency - Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire
(2024-04)The prevailing literature on global state capacity suggests that: 1) Europe was pulling ahead of other regions in the early modern period, and 2) state capacity in this period was mostly dedicated to the purposes of ... -
Beyond the private car: Managing sustainable mobility in everyday life
(2024-04-19)It is increasingly recognized that private car use needs to be reduced, alongside spatial planning solutions and vehicle development, to realize a sustainable mobility transition. But the fact that the organisation of ... -
Over-design and under-funding: A theory of park (re)development in Gothenburg
(2024-04-19)Urban parks are commonly seen as the panacea for multiple of urban issues. From migrant integration to climate change, urban agriculture to wellbeing, biodiversity to obesity, urban parks are touted as the answer. The ... -
Skill Premium in Sweden, 1900–1950
(2024-04)This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in Sweden throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using newly digitized data on income taxes, this paper demonstrates ... -
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, ... -
Vad är BNP?
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Ekonomin i EU
(Studentlitteratur, 2017)I boken beskrivs de stora dragen i de olika EU-ländernas ekonomi, huvudsakligen med hjälp av nationalräkenskapsdata. Ett bisyfte är att klargöra innebörden i BNP och andra nationalräkenskapsbegrepp och visa hur de hänger samman. -
Adam Smith
(Studentlitteratur, 2021)Den skotske filosofen Adam Smith (1723–1790) brukar betraktas som nationalekonomins fader med en laissez-faire-attityd till marknaden. Här behandlas dels hans verk, dels hans omväxlande liv från uppväxten i Kircaldy via ... -
Floods Vulnerability and the Quest for Resilience - Urban Planning and Development Challenges in Matola, Mozambique
(2024-03-18)Increased flood occurrence due to heavy rainfall associated with cyclones is recognized worldwide. Urban environments in developing countries, such as Matola in Mozambique, suffer greatly from the negative impacts of floods, ... -
Slavery, Resistance and Repression: A Quantitative Empirical Investigation
(2024-03)In this article, we study what individual and social characteristics made it more likely for an individual to resist slavery. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which allows us to ... -
Nudges and Monetary Incentives: A Green Partnership?
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-03)Shifting individual behaviour is an important tool for addressing environmental issues and there is a wide literature evaluating interventions to encourage pro-environmental behaviour. One important but under-researched ... -
Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914
(2024-03)The issue of how elites as a social group come to be, how they maintain their position and how they affect the society they come to control is very much at the centre of the inequality debate. The present paper studies ... -
Telling Talent: Essays on Discrimination and Promotion Contests
(2024-03-11)Many of our interactions are shaped by the beliefs we hold about the people we interact with. Because of this, we often try to gather information about others. This information shapes our beliefs, which then inform the ... -
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s
(2024-02)In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to acquire, and how this changed following emancipation, is not well known. We ... -
The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run
(2024-02)It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture. We contribute with a study on the wealth distribution in a ... -
Engineering lmpact: Analyzing the Scientific and Technological Outcomes of Collaborative Research between Universities and Firms
(2024-02-29)This Ph.D. dissertation analyzes collaborative research between universities and firms in the field of electrical engineering in Sweden. It conceptualizes such collaborations as one form of academic engagement that fosters ... -
Environmental Taxes from the EU State Aid Control System Perspective – A Legal Analysis of the Integration of Environmental Protection
(2024-02-12)This thesis is a legal analysis of environmental taxes enacted by the Member States of the European Union (EU) as a tool to protect the environment from the perspective of the State aid control system (laws, rulings, and ... -
International container shipping through the Covid-19 pandemic - Disruptions from a Swedish perspective
(2024)At the onset of the pandemic in spring 2020, the Swedish shipping sector was first affected by border closures preventing passengers to use RoPax shipping and cruise ferries. There were some blank sailings but in general ... -
At the Border – EU Law, Asylum and the Spatialities of Fundamental Rights
(2024-02-01)This study is a contribution to the field of critical migration law studies. Examining the externalization of EU migration and border control, it addresses the asymmetry between where EU border control takes place and where ... -
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 ...