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Working Papers

2023

1. The Changing Meaning of the Wage Bargaining Round in Sweden since the 1960s: A Contextual Approach to Shifts in Industrial Relations
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
2. The politics of profits: Profit squeeze and political-economic change in Sweden, 1975–1985
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
3. Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: Evidence from rural Swedish probates
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History

2022

4. Agrar ojämlikhet i Sverige studerad med bevillningstaxeringen som källa, 1870–1920
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
5. Incomes and Income Inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from Micro Data
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
   See also Journal Article Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2024) (2024)

2021

6. The Evolution of Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Sweden and the Road from Oligarchy to Democracy
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
7. What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-level Data, 1909–1950
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (1)

2020

8. Income Inequality in Mexico 1895-1940: Industrialization, Revolution, Institutions
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (1)
9. The living standards of the labouring classes in Sweden, 1750–1900: Evidence from rural probate inventories
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
10. What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (10)
    Also in Working Papers, HAL (2020) View citations (10)
    World Inequality Lab Working Papers, HAL (2020) View citations (9)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020) View citations (10)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (10)
    ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (2020) View citations (2)
    Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (2020) View citations (8)

2019

11. Financial effects in historic consumption and investment functions
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
    See also Journal Article Financial effects in historic consumption and investment functions, International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2020) View citations (4) (2020)
12. Mercantilist Inequality: Wealth and Poverty in Stockholm 1650-1750
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
13. Reconsidering the Role of Farmer Politics in Swedish Democratization
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
14. The Origins of the Swedish Wage Bargaining Model
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
15. The rise of the middle class: The income gap between salaried employees and workers in Sweden, 1830-1935
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History

2018

16. Peasant Aristocrats? Wealth and Social Status of Swedish Farmer Parliamentarians 1769–1895
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (2)
17. The wealth of the Swedish peasant farmer class 1750–1900: Composition and distribution
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (3)
18. Wages, income distribution and economic growth in Scandinavia
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers, Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES) (2018)

2017

19. The Wealth of the Richest: Inequality and the Nobility in Sweden, 1750–1900
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
20. The stratification of the Swedish peasant farmer class, 1750-1900
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

2016

21. Capital shares and income inequality: Evidence from the long run
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) View citations (4)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2015) View citations (27)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) View citations (18)
    See also Journal Article Capital Shares and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Long Run, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2018) View citations (89) (2018)
22. Inequality and the working class in Scandinavia 1800 to 1910 - Workers' share of growing income
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
23. The Effect of a Massive Wage Push on Income Distribution and Employment. Evidence from the 1920 Eight-Hour Workday Reform in Sweden and Its Aftermath
    Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History

2015

24. Wealth inequality in Sweden, 1700-1900
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

Journal Articles

2024

1. Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data
   Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 92, (C)
   See also Working Paper Incomes and Income Inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from Micro Data, Lund Papers in Economic History (2022) (2022)

2023

2. Bondesamfunn og bondeopposisjon på Agder: I overgangen mellom seinmiddelalder og tidlig nytid ca. 1480–1615
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2023, 71, (1), 100-101
3. Income inequality in an industrial city during the great levelling: micro level evidence from malmö, 1900–1950
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2023, 71, (1), 80-95 View citations (1)

2022

4. Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750†
   Economic History Review, 2022, 75, (1), 157-180

2021

5. Wages, Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Long-Run Perspectives in Scandinavia, 1900–2010
   Review of Political Economy, 2021, 33, (4), 725-745

2020

6. Financial effects in historic consumption and investment functions
   International Review of Applied Economics, 2020, 34, (3), 304-326 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Financial effects in historic consumption and investment functions, Lund Papers in Economic History (2019) (2019)
7. The rise of the middle class: the income gap between salaried employees and workers in Sweden, ca. 1830–1940
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2020, 68, (2), 91-111 View citations (2)

2019

8. Unequal poverty and equal industrialisation: Finnish wealth, 1750–1900
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2019, 67, (3), 229-248 View citations (5)

2018

9. Capital Shares and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Long Run
   The Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78, (3), 712-743 View citations (89)
   See also Working Paper Capital shares and income inequality: Evidence from the long run, Working Papers (2016) View citations (4) (2016)
10. Wealth inequality in Sweden, 1750–1900
    Economic History Review, 2018, 71, (3), 772-794 View citations (16)

2017

11. Inequality and the working class in Scandinavia 1800–1910: Workers’ share of growing incomes
    Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2017, 13, (03), 180-189 View citations (1)
12. The economic effects of the 1920 eight-hour working day reform in Sweden
    Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2017, 65, (2), 149-168 View citations (9)

2016

13. Social dumping cases in the Swedish Labour Court in the wake of Laval, 2004–2010
    Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2016, 37, (1), 23-42

2015

14. Lohnzurückhaltung und Lohnmilitanz: Belgien, Deutschland und die Niederlande, 1950–2010
    WSI-Mitteilungen, 2015, 68, (4), 272-279
15. The (International) Political Economy of Falling Wage Shares: Situating Working-Class Agency
    New Political Economy, 2015, 20, (3), 406-430 View citations (3)
16. Wage restraint in Scandinavia: during the postwar period or the neoliberal age?
    European Review of Economic History, 2015, 19, (4), 359-381 View citations (7)

2014

17. Do unions redistribute income from capital to labour? Union density and wage shares since 1960
    Industrial Relations Journal, 2014, 45, (5), 389-408 View citations (36)
18. Labour's share in twentieth-century Sweden: a reinterpretation
    Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2014, 62, (3), 290-314 View citations (17)

Chapters

2022

1. Does Democratization Cause Redistribution? Evidence from Sweden and Brazil
   Palgrave Macmillan