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Abstract
This study examines the extent to which wages of industrial workers converged during the period of Sweden's industrial breakthrough, thereby relating to the international discussion on market integration. About 350 local wage series for nine regions in Sweden for the period 1861–1913 are used, deflated by regional cost-of-living indices. The main result is that there was a general wage convergence during the period of study. Wage differentials decreased across occupations and regions, but also within occupational groups and regions (sigma-convergence). There was also a general tendency of initially lower wages to grow more quickly than initially higher wages (beta-convergence). The convergence pattern in this respect differed between sub-periods, which may be related to the pattern of industrial and infrastructural development in Sweden. The occurrence of wage convergence may be interpreted as evidence of an integration of the labour market, which corresponds to the integration of product and capital markets presented in other investigations.
The research has been undertaken within the project “Wage formation and labour market integration in Sweden 1850–1914” with financial support from the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Science (HSFR).
The research has been undertaken within the project “Wage formation and labour market integration in Sweden 1850–1914” with financial support from the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Science (HSFR).
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The research has been undertaken within the project “Wage formation and labour market integration in Sweden 1850–1914” with financial support from the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Science (HSFR).
