Income Inequality and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Swedish Micro Data,1870–1970 The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed...

In this paper, I use a new plant-level dataset to investigate the relationship between wages and the regional strength of unions. Using a shift-share …

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At the Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab (UHILL), we are focused on the study of economic inequality, migration, and labor markets, from the industrial period to the present.

This paper explores the prevalence of in-kind wages in medieval labour markets and the underlying reasons for their use. Using a new dataset of agricu…