Industrialization and inequality revisited: Mortality differentials and vulnerability to economic stress in Stockholm, 1878-1926.
(2016) In European Review of Economic History 20(2). p.176-197- Abstract
- This work combines economic and demographic data to examine inequality of living standards in Stockholm at the turn of the twentieth century. Using a longitudinal population register with occupational information, we utilize event-history models to show that despite absolute decreases in mortality, relative differences between socioeconomic groups remained virtually constant. The results also show that child mortality continued to be sensitive to short-term fluctuations in wages and that there were no socioeconomic differences in this response. We argue that the persistent inequality in living standards was possibly due to differences in residential patterns and nutrition.
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- author
- Molitoris, Joseph LU and Dribe, Martin LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
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- European Review of Economic History
- volume
- 20
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
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- scopus:84973091665
- wos:000377469300003
- ISSN
- 1474-0044
- DOI
- 10.1093/ereh/hev023
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 2a3280ff-75fc-4043-8506-099e0b970713 (old id 8302812)
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