Workshop

Jobs and Labor Markets in Historical Settings

Schneider project

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)