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Economic and Social History
A profile area for research in economic and social history has during the last ten years been labour market history studies of, for example, wages, living standards, mobility and institutions. Studies of productivity and emigration have also been conducted. Some of the more recent projects relate to labour market and productivity issues, while others open new fields: socio-economic differences in diet and health, selection and migration, historical mortality in pre-colonial West Africa, and the economic consequences of slavery and colonialism.
Ongoing research projects
- From bondage to the free labor market: wages, prices and living standards in the Caribbean for a century after emancipation
- Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Institutions and wealth inequality in a Caribbean slave plantation economy, 1750s to 1917
- Slavery, economic development in the Atlantic economy, and the Great Divergence
- Weights and Currencies: Estimating Levels of Swedish Labour Productivity in Agriculture, Industry and Services in Relation to the US and the UK, 1850–2010
Research funding
- Swedish Research Council
- Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
- Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap
- Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius Foundation
- Stiftelsen Anna Ahrenbergs Foundation
- Institutet för arbetsmarknads- och utbildningspolitisk utvärdering
- Torsten Söderbergs Foundation
