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1. Industrialization of Services : Technology and Routinization in the 21st Century
Sammanfattning : Sweden has a long tradition of process improvements, productivity increments, waste reduction in manufacturing, continuing a mode of industrialization that helped achieve prosperity. With growing urban centers, mechanization of agriculture, outsourcings by manufacturing and the public sector with subsequent acquisitions, large service firms have appeared in an ever-growing service sector. LÄS MER
2. Gold, Coal and Iron : Essays on Industrialization and Economic Development
Sammanfattning : Essay I: How does electricity provision affect female employment? In theory, electrical household appliances can save labor in domestic production and divert it to the market. However, the empirical evidence has been inconclusive. LÄS MER
3. Life and Death in the City: Demography and Living Standards during Stockholm's Industrialization
Sammanfattning : 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 both processes have received much interest from researchers, we know relatively little of how either one played out among individuals in urban areas, which were both at the forefront of industrialization and the fertility decline. LÄS MER
4. Why Firms Grow : The Roles of Institutions, Trade, and Technology during Swedish Industrialization
Sammanfattning : Industrialization and the emergence of a manufacturing sector are generally perceived as key drivers for countries to see economic growth and increases in living standards. Only 200 years ago, most countries were relatively poor and had similarly low living standards. LÄS MER
5. Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade
Sammanfattning : 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 the nineteenth century and provides the first all encompassing accounts on this topic. LÄS MER
