La gran mayoría de la población mundial vive en un amplio, accidentado archipiélago que
podemos denominar genéricamente “atraso económico”. Abordaremos este tema desde la …

This Element details how elites provide policy concessions when they face credible threats
of revolution. Specifically, the authors discuss how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the …

This paper analyzes incomes and income inequality in Stockholm from 1870 to 1970. The
paper builds on a new dataset of 38,022 randomly sampled Stockholm residents 1870 …

Institutions for prevention and resolution of industrial conflicts were introduced all over the
world in the early twentieth century. We use a new dataset of geocoded strikes and lockouts …

A century after Mussolini's seizure of power, distributive trends during Interwar Italy are only
partially known. This paper presents new evidence on inequality, contributing to …

We present the first comprehensive, long run salary information on Swedish middle-class
employees before the twentieth century. Our data include, for instance, school teachers …

Economic theory predicts that regional wages will converge as transport and communication
technologies bring labour markets together. An exploration of this transition from labour …

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, leisure was reserved for the few. By the end of
the twentieth century, however, most workers had a regulated normal working time of 40 or …

The relationship between gender inequality and occupational segregation is a fascinating
puzzle. New microdata on all primary school teachers in Sweden in c. 1890 show that the …

During the first half of the twentieth century, the industrialization of Sweden was completed.
A substantial proportion of the population resided in cities. What did the life courses of these …