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Industrialization and inequality revisited: Mortality differentials and vulnerability to economic stress in Stockholm, 1878-1926.

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Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

176-197

Publication/Series

European Review of Economic History

Volume

20

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Economics and Business

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1474-0044