Department of Economy and Society / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle (2013-): Recent submissions
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I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860
(2018-05-24)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the power relations of labour and gender in the servant institution during the agrarian revolution in Sweden. The positions of servant, master and mistress are analyzed theoretically ... -
Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade
(2018-05-18)This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during ... -
Industry Dynamics and Relatedness of Knowledge – Knowledge Transfer Through Labor Mobility and Entrepreneurship in the West Swedish Textile Industry
(2018-05-02)This PhD thesis investigates how industry dynamics are influenced by knowledge transferred through labor mobility and entrepreneurship by focusing on the role of relatedness of the knowledge. The empirical setting is the ... -
Instrumental variables based on twin births are by definition not valid
(2018-04)Instrumental variables based on twin births are a well-known and widespread method to find exogenous variation in the number of children when studying the effect on siblings or parents. This paper argues that there are ... -
Rural/urban redux: Conceptual problems and material effects
(2017-11-20)Concepts are the basic building blocks of all knowledge, while the strength of the theories that guide any societal project is dependent on the quality those concepts. Contrarily, the utilization of questionable concepts ... -
Ownership or donorship? Results and ownership in Swedish international development cooperation
(2017-08-16)This thesis is a critical investigation of how the increased demand for results in international development cooperation has influenced relations between donors and partner countries. The increased demand for results, ... -
An introduction to using twin births as instrumental variables for sibship size
(2017-04)Some families who experience a twin birth get one more child than they had intended and planned for. This is the reason why twin births are used to create instrumental variables (IVs) for the number of children in a family. ... -
Elektrotekniska industrins ledande tråd. AB Dahréntråd och svensk lindningstrådsindustri 1945-1980
(2017-03-31)This dissertation is a study of Swedish manufacturers of insulated winding wire and the market forces surrounding the industry between 1945 and 1980. As part of the chain of subcontractors, the winding wire industry was ... -
Exploring Knowledge Intensity in Entrepreneurship: A Quantitative Study of Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms
(2017-03-29)This Ph.D. dissertation investigates the statistical and theoretical relationships between different dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) in Europe and how knowledge intensity and performance in ... -
The ecological footprint of early-modern commodities Coefficients of land use per unit of product
(2017-02)Land availability and overseas trade have been central topics in economic history. The current paper contributes to this literature by setting the empirical foundations necessary for the calculation of the direct ecological ... -
Understanding recreational landscapes. Developing a knowledge base on outdoor recreation monitoring in Swedish coastal and marine areas.
(2016-12-16)This PhD thesis concerns the role and importance of outdoor recreation monitoring in the management of coastal and marine areas in Sweden – a topic that in spite its importance has eluded attention, both in research circles ... -
Regional wages and labour market integration in Sweden, 1732–2009
(2016-11-25)This dissertation consists of an introduction, four research papers and two papers that describe the data collected. Three county-specific data sets were constructed: one wage data set for the manufacturing sector, one ... -
Mortality among European settlers in pre-colonial West Africa: The “White Man’s Grave” revisited
(2016-08)We have created the first longitudinal dataset following European employees of the English Royal African Company during their time in West Africa, 1683–1766. The mortality was catastrophically high with limited geographical ... -
Degraded and restituted towns in Poland: Origins, development, problems
(Copyright 2015 by University of Gothenburg, 2015)One of the less known problems in settlement geography is the issue of so-called degraded and restituted towns. This lack of reconnaissance, however, is perhaps less the result of the towns’ scarcity than their specificity ... -
Stationers roll för mindre orter och dess omland
(2016-03-03)Denna del av projektet ”Stationers roll för mindre orter och dess omland” består av en empirisk studie av tre mindre orter. Orterna är Lödöse, Floby och Kode som valdes utifrån hur orternas respektive stationsområden ... -
Konkurrens, samarbete och koncentration. Kalkstens- och cementindustrin i Sverige 1871-1982
(2015-05-20)This dissertation examines cartels and cooperation. The literature about cartels and cooperation is in many ways contradictory; many of the studies that have been made come to different results. Several of the implications ... -
The changing role and importance of the built environment for daily travel in Sweden
(2015-05-19)Geography, in terms of the built environment and location patterns, was traditionally, and still is, emphasized by many scholars, policymakers, and planners as greatly influencing people’s daily travel behaviour. However, ... -
En industriell reservarmé i välfärdsstaten - Arbetslösa socialhjälpstagare i Sverige 1913-2012
(2015-05-08)This economic history dissertation explores a central contradiction within the Swedish welfare state, the contradiction of the welfare state’s goal to decommodify its citizens from market fluctuations and the constant need ... -
Pushed into Unemployment, Pulled into Retirement: Facing Old Age in Gothenburg, 1923-1943
(2015-02)Along with rapid growth and improved standards of living, the first decades of the twentieth century saw the introduction of new technology and new ways to organize production. There are contrasting views on what impact ... -
The Gothenburg Population Panel 1915-1943: GOPP Version 6.0
(2015-02)This paper presents the Gothenburg Population Panel (GOPP), a random sample of individuals who were living in Gothenburg at some point in time during the period 1915-1943. The individuals in the GOPP were searched for ...