UHILL Workshop
- Date
- 8 January 2026, 13:15–17:00
- Location
- K412
- Type
- Workshop
- Organiser
- Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab (UHILL)
- Contact person
- William Skoglund
The workshop is arranged by Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab (UHILL) at the Department of Economic History.
Presentations should be approximately 30 minutes long including questions. For those interested, joint lunch (self-financed) will be at Saluhallen at 11:45.
Please contact William Skoglund if you are ttending the workshop.
PROGRAM
Session one
- Suvi Heikkuri (Economic history GU-UHILL), "The effect of electrification on employment and wages in Sweden, 1913–1926". With Svante Prado and Chris Absell
- Jakob Molinder (Economic history UU-UHILL), "What Did Workers Do? Using Job Ads to Analyze the Task Content of Work in an Industrializing Economy"
- Karin Kristensson (Sociology UU), "Changing occupational stratification of
meaningfulness in work? A study of Sweden 1991-2021"
Fika Break
Session two
- Jørgen Modalsli (Economics Oslo Met), "Measuring long-run wealth inequal-ity: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019". With Edda Solbakken and Rolf Aaberge
- Alexandra Sandström (Economics UU-UHILL), "Education, Language, and Identity: Evidence from Nation-Building in Northern Sweden"
- Elien Dalman (Sociology LU/SU-UHILL), "Surnames as a measure of social inequality and intergenerational persistence: sibling similarity and survival"