Jobs and Labor Markets in Historical Settings
This workshop is hosted by the Young CAS PI Ben Schneider.
10:00-12:00 Introductions and informal Discussions on Job Quality and Labor Markets
12:00-13:30 Lunch at Gabelshus
13:30-14:15 Vincent Delabastita (Radboud University, NL), Meredith Paker (Grinnell University, US), and Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University, NO): Wages and Job Quality: US Women's Paid Work in the 1920s
14:15-15:00 Benjamin Schneider (OsloMet, NO), Judy Stephenson (University College London, UK), and Jane Whittle (Exeter University, UK): Places of Work in a Historical Perspective
15:00-15:45 Vincent Delabastita (Radboud University, NL) and Maarten Groos (Utrecht University, NL): The Emergence of Competitive Labor Markets
15.45-16:15 Break
16:15-17:00 Meredith Paker (Grinnell University, US) and Ivan Luzardo Luna (University of Pennsylvania, US): Unemployment Insurance and the Distribution of Lost Earnings in Recessions: Evidence from the Great Depression in Britain
17:00-17:45 Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University, NO): The Task and Skill Content of Past Technological Change: The Rise of Cognitive Jobs in the US Transportation Revolution
18:30 Dinner (Location TBA)