Suvi Heikkuri

1-2 PhD positions in innovation studies, also with historical perspective, in our Uppsala Patent History Group (www.uphg.se) and Dept. of Business Studies: lnkd.in/eqAftMVX. DL 31/3.

Positions on “Innovation and Strategy”, and a project proposal on “Social Capital and Innovation” (funding pending).

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

My colleagues at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Social Policy unit, are seeking a postdoc for 2-3 years. Great opportunity! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

One week left until deadline!

Technological change and structural shifts in Sweden's Labor Market, 1870–1930: skill upgrading or deskilling? This paper documents changing occupational structure and skill composition during industrialisation in Sweden. Using population censuses and the HISCO/HISCLASS scheme, the paper documents a shift f...

New publication! In this paper, I study the skill composition of Swedish labor force throughout 1870-1930. In addition to the typical workshop-to-factory and farmwork-to-factory transitions, I explore how the service sector increased skilled employment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Joint Baltic Connections and the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History Conference | University of Helsinki June 10-12, 2026, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

📢 Deadline Extended! 📢
The Joint Baltic Connections & Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History Conference accepts abstracts until Feb 28.

Keynotes Joyce Burnette (Wabash), Marcelo Bucheli (U. of Illinois) & Anders Ögren (Uppsala)

Don’t miss out!

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University Lecturer in Social Science History University Lecturer in Social Science History

Come work with us in Helsinki! A permanent position for a lecturer in social science history, associated with a joint Master's program with the UCL. DL February 27th! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

We show a positive association between establishment size and the employment of women and minors. Mechanization seems to only impact their employment through establishment size. Industry-specific factors also played an important role, as some industries had a long history of being female-intensive.

New publication! Our paper with Svante Prado and Yoshihiri Sato titled "Women and children in factories: Did mechanization increase the demand for low-cost labor in Sweden?" is published in a special issue on gender in economic history. recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IH...

📢Nos complace anunciar la publicación del número 22.1 (febrero, 2026) de la revista
@ihe-ehr.bsky.social

👁️Este número es un Special issue dedicado a Gender in Economic History, e incluye varios artículos, reseñas y las estadísticas de la revista.

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📢 CfP:
Workshop on Economic & Business History of the Global South

📍Lima, Peru | 27–29 April 2026
Organized by Universidad del Pacífico & YSI

📝 Deadline for extended abstracts: 28 February 2026

Accommodation & meals provided. Partial travel stipends are available👇

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📝Call for Papers: 19th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network (AEHN).
 
We warmly welcome submissions on any aspect of African economic history.

The submission deadline is 31 March, 2026.

We look forward to seeing you in Gothenburg in October!

Concluding my snowy stay in Uppsala. It has been an eventful week and a half with a workshop, seminar, and two public defenses. Congrats to the new doctors @skoglundw.bsky.social and Erik Thosteman 🥳🎓

👉🏻 A great postodoc opportunity on Marine Environmental History:

✅multidisciplinary research environment
✅minimal teaching and admin duties
✅generous salary package
✅long tenure (2.5 years)

Want to know more? contact my colleague per.hallen@gu.se!

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Visiting Uppsala university this and next week ❄️

New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F

📢THIS WEEK

RESEARCH WORKSHOP:

"Tracing the roots of human capital inequality in early-modern Italy, 17th – 19th centuries"

🗓️16-17 Oct 2025

Goodwin Room, San Francesco #Siena

Female labor force participation in historical census microdata By: Jørgen Modalsli ABSTRACT How reliable is historical microdata? Understanding historical labor force participation is crucial for assessing long-term trends in economic development and intergenerational mobility. Most existing historical studies are, however, limited to men, and little is known about how reliable quantitative historical sources are when studying labor market outcomes for women. This paper documents that the measurement of women's economic activity in the 1910 Norwegian population census had a high level of consistency. There is extensive discussion of measurement issues in historical census reports, micro data can reproduce historical census tables with a high degree of accuracy, and other contemporary reports such as industrial censuses and tax statistics confirm the results found in the census. In addition, a double-enumeration feature of the Norwegian census is leveraged to assess consistency between enumerators, finding no indication that precision in the occupational classification of women is any lower than for men. Some potential sources of downward bias are found in the historical census microdata set provided by IPUMS. Based on the results in this paper, historical census data appears well suited to study economic activity using modern econometric methods, for women as well as men. A slight upward revision of the 39\% female labor force participation in Norway in 1910 might be in order.

New working paper! *Female labor force participation in historical census microdata*, available at EHES: ehes.org/wp/EHES_282.... . Female labor force participation is well measured in the Norwegian 1910 Census, and the available micro data is well suited for economic analysis (with some caveats).

Back in sunny Gothenburg 🇸🇪

We are hiring a doctoral candidate to study wealth inequality in Early Modern Sweden. Application deadline now on Sunday!

🚨 new paper klaxon 🚨

With Jakob Molinder, in the Journal of Economic History: “What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950”

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Second CFA for PhD scholarships in Economics at the Tuscany Universities! Deadline July 24. Applications in Economic History most welcome. See phdeconomics.unisi.it/admission-pr...

Utdrag ur Älvsborgs lösen 1571, visar en sida med ett antal hushåll i norra Västergötland och vad de ägde i form av koppar, silver, kor, hästar, får, med mera.

Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!

Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.

Sök senast den 17 augusti!

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PhD positions at the Department of Economic History - Uppsala University PhD positions at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala university, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

The Department of Economic History at Uppsala University is now hiring three PhD-students in different projects. Have a look and apply! Deadline September 15th, to begin work in January 2026.

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Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab (UHILL) - Uppsala University At the Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab (UHILL), we are focused on the study of economic inequality, migration, and labor markets, from the industrial period to the present.

Three PhD. positions at economic history in Uppsala are now open, one of which is associated with Uppsala history of inequality and labor lab (UHILL): www.uu.se/en/research/...

Now live the #Gothenburg workshop in #EconomicHistory.

Keynotes by Markus Lampe and Jakob Molinder and a great variety of presentations, from #trade, to #humancapital, to #policy and #institutions.

Well done Juan Pablo Julià,
Giulia Martini and Raisa Rubio!

📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities is now open! Please share and RT! Economic History applications sought!
Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST)
Program website: phdeconomics.unisi.it
Call and application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...

🚨TODAY🚨

New @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!

Francis Munier (University of Strasbourg)

"I recognize you, you are happy: The key role of recognition in explaining the positive relationship between social relationships and subjective well-being."

May 14 - 15:00, Goodwin Room

Unravelling income differentials: exploring the decline in skill premiums in twentieth-century Sweden This paper documents the evolution of income differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in Sweden throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using newly digitised data on income t...

One of my PhD articles is now available online. Open access at the Scandinavian Review of Economic History. In this article, I calculate skill premiums in Sweden for 1900-1950 using occupational incomes from tax returns. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congrats!! 🙌