Lund Studies in Economic History - Böcker

Sweden has a long tradition in the field of historical national accounts. However, the previous series were in need of complements and revisions. In this book new, elaborated, and consistent series for the 19th and 20th centuries are presented. Th...

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De skånska godsen har genom århundradena inte bara utgjort ett spektakulärt inslag i landskapsbilden, de har också varit centrum för politisk maktutövning och jurisdiktion. I denna bok kartläggs och analyseras de skånska godsens ekonomiska och arb...

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Inom internationell forskning har på senare år intresset ökat för frågan om vad de teknologiska och organisatoriska förändringarna under den andra industriella revolutionen innebar för kraven på arbetskraftens kvalifikationer och kompetens. Av de ...

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State policy intervention in the economy has been a ubiquitous phenomenon in history. Varying in form and intensity, it has had a profound impact on trade, welfare, international relations, and political and economic thinking. This thesis provides...

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What role the state should and can play in bringing about economic development is one of the longest standing debates in the economic sciences. Yet, previous research has mostly focused on how a variety of industrial policies affect static efficie...

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Det finns en uppsjö av valmöjligheter på den thai-ländska landsbygden idag; i synnerhet i ett område som San Sai i norra Thailand, som ligger all-deles i närheten av en stad. Bönder kan välja att driva på förändrings-processen, genom att utnyttja ...

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Daniel Waldenström Lifting All Boats? The Evolution of Income and Wealth Inequality over the Path of Development Does a rising tide lift all boats? This question that is, to what extent does improvements of the general economy benefit all is centr...

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Under 1700- och 1800-talet omvandlades det svenska jordbruket som en del av en euro¿peisk utveckling som uppvisar övergripande likheter. De genomgripande förändringarna och deras betydelse för den långsiktiga samhällsutvecklingen motiverar att man...

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The aim of this dissertation is to examine how differences in socioeconomic status, race and place of residence interact with infant and child mortality in Colombia over the period 1967-2010. One of the reasons why the study focuses on infant and ...

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The conventional approach to the analysis of structural change is to apply a horizontal perspective on the economy. This means that sectors are studied in isolation. By the integration of two strands of literature on structural change and the role...

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This doctoral thesis examines the driving forces of product innovations in the Swedish manufacturing industry during the period 1970-2007. Specifically it examines whether and to what extent innovations have been the creative response to positive ...

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The aim of this thesis is to investigate the evolution of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) based on solid empirical material for the Swedish economy. The focus on this thesis is exploring the role of acquisition by incumbent firms in the evoluti...

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This study provides an explanation of the different pathways of agricultural change and economic development in north and south Vietnam. It shows that pre-colonial factor endowments conditioned the development of the rice economies of the two delt...

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This dissertation provides new insights on creativity and the lives of creative people, by availing of unique data-sets covering the lives, works and emotional states of famous music composers. The underlying research documents the long-run persis...

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This thesis analyses self-employment, sickness absence and early retirement pension among immigrants in Sweden. The empirical analysis investigate a period, 1981-2003, characterized by a transformation from high employment and expansion of the wel...

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This dissertation examines various aspects of mobility during the closing decades of the nineteenth century in Sweden. In terms of the pace and magnitude of the changes taking place during this industrial breakthrough, no other period in Swedish h...

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This dissertation uses longitudinal micro-data from Stockholm between 1878 and 1926 to study the causes and consequences of the fertility transition and to examine the development of living standards inequality during industrialization. Although b...

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All that's mine I carry with me Early life disease and adult health in Sweden during 250 years The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study early life exposures in relation to adult health in Sweden during 250 years. The early life exposures invest...

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