The Jobs Ads Database (JABD) Prototype: Building a New Resource for Historical Labour Market Research

Mathias Johansson (), Peter Gladoić Håkansson, Tobias Karlsson () and Matti La Mela
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Mathias Johansson: Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Postal: Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Box 192, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden, https://www.kultur.lu.se/en/person/mathiasjohansson/
Peter Gladoić Håkansson: Department of Society, Culture and Identity, Malmö University
Tobias Karlsson: Department of Economic History, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economic History, Lund University, Box 7083, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden, https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/persons/tobias-karlsson-2/
Matti La Mela: Department of ALM, Uppsala University

No 264, Lund Papers in Economic History from Lund University, Department of Economic History

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel dataset that serves as a prototype of what we call the ‘Job Ads Database’ (JADB). The underlying job advertisements are gathered from the Swedish digitalized newspaper corpus hosted by and made accessible through the Swedish National Library (Kungliga Biblioteket). JADB enables studying how the frequency and content of job advertisements change over time and sheds new light on the role of newspapers in recruitment, both relative to earlier practices and to public employment offices. We compare JADB data with official employment statistics of notified vacancies and applications from the Swedish Public Employment Administration (SPEA).

Keywords: job advertisements; newspapers; historical labour markets; recruitment practices; Sweden; digitized newspapers; HISCO; labour demand; nineteenth century; twentieth century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C55 C81 J63 J64 N33 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2026-03-04
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