Suvi Heikkuri
@suviheikkuri.bsky.social
Postdoc (economic history) at the University of Gothenburg interested in technological change, human capital, skills, and income inequality
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New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...
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A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F
October 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F
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📢THIS WEEK
RESEARCH WORKSHOP:
"Tracing the roots of human capital inequality in early-modern Italy, 17th – 19th centuries"
🗓️16-17 Oct 2025
Goodwin Room, San Francesco #Siena
RESEARCH WORKSHOP:
"Tracing the roots of human capital inequality in early-modern Italy, 17th – 19th centuries"
🗓️16-17 Oct 2025
Goodwin Room, San Francesco #Siena
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
📢THIS WEEK
RESEARCH WORKSHOP:
"Tracing the roots of human capital inequality in early-modern Italy, 17th – 19th centuries"
🗓️16-17 Oct 2025
Goodwin Room, San Francesco #Siena
RESEARCH WORKSHOP:
"Tracing the roots of human capital inequality in early-modern Italy, 17th – 19th centuries"
🗓️16-17 Oct 2025
Goodwin Room, San Francesco #Siena
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New working paper! *Female labor force participation in historical census microdata*, available at EHES: ehes.org/wp/EHES_282.... . Female labor force participation is well measured in the Norwegian 1910 Census, and the available micro data is well suited for economic analysis (with some caveats).
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New working paper! *Female labor force participation in historical census microdata*, available at EHES: ehes.org/wp/EHES_282.... . Female labor force participation is well measured in the Norwegian 1910 Census, and the available micro data is well suited for economic analysis (with some caveats).
Back in sunny Gothenburg 🇸🇪
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Back in sunny Gothenburg 🇸🇪
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We are hiring a doctoral candidate to study wealth inequality in Early Modern Sweden. Application deadline now on Sunday!
Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
August 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
We are hiring a doctoral candidate to study wealth inequality in Early Modern Sweden. Application deadline now on Sunday!
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🚨 new paper klaxon 🚨
With Jakob Molinder, in the Journal of Economic History: “What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950”
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With Jakob Molinder, in the Journal of Economic History: “What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950”
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July 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🚨 new paper klaxon 🚨
With Jakob Molinder, in the Journal of Economic History: “What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
With Jakob Molinder, in the Journal of Economic History: “What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Second CFA for PhD scholarships in Economics at the Tuscany Universities! Deadline July 24. Applications in Economic History most welcome. See phdeconomics.unisi.it/admission-pr...
July 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Second CFA for PhD scholarships in Economics at the Tuscany Universities! Deadline July 24. Applications in Economic History most welcome. See phdeconomics.unisi.it/admission-pr...
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Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
June 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
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The Department of Economic History at Uppsala University is now hiring three PhD-students in different projects. Have a look and apply! Deadline September 15th, to begin work in January 2026.
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PhD positions at the Department of Economic History - Uppsala University
PhD positions at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala university, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University
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June 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The Department of Economic History at Uppsala University is now hiring three PhD-students in different projects. Have a look and apply! Deadline September 15th, to begin work in January 2026.
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Three PhD. positions at economic history in Uppsala are now open, one of which is associated with Uppsala history of inequality and labor lab (UHILL): www.uu.se/en/research/...
Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab (UHILL)
- Uppsala University
At the Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab (UHILL), we are focused on the study of economic inequality, migration, and labor markets, from the industrial period to the present.
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June 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Three PhD. positions at economic history in Uppsala are now open, one of which is associated with Uppsala history of inequality and labor lab (UHILL): www.uu.se/en/research/...
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Now live the #Gothenburg workshop in #EconomicHistory.
Keynotes by Markus Lampe and Jakob Molinder and a great variety of presentations, from #trade, to #humancapital, to #policy and #institutions.
Well done Juan Pablo Julià,
Giulia Martini and Raisa Rubio!
Keynotes by Markus Lampe and Jakob Molinder and a great variety of presentations, from #trade, to #humancapital, to #policy and #institutions.
Well done Juan Pablo Julià,
Giulia Martini and Raisa Rubio!
May 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Now live the #Gothenburg workshop in #EconomicHistory.
Keynotes by Markus Lampe and Jakob Molinder and a great variety of presentations, from #trade, to #humancapital, to #policy and #institutions.
Well done Juan Pablo Julià,
Giulia Martini and Raisa Rubio!
Keynotes by Markus Lampe and Jakob Molinder and a great variety of presentations, from #trade, to #humancapital, to #policy and #institutions.
Well done Juan Pablo Julià,
Giulia Martini and Raisa Rubio!
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📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities is now open! Please share and RT! Economic History applications sought!
Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST)
Program website: phdeconomics.unisi.it
Call and application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...
Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST)
Program website: phdeconomics.unisi.it
Call and application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...
May 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities is now open! Please share and RT! Economic History applications sought!
Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST)
Program website: phdeconomics.unisi.it
Call and application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...
Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST)
Program website: phdeconomics.unisi.it
Call and application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...
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🚨TODAY🚨
New @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!
Francis Munier (University of Strasbourg)
"I recognize you, you are happy: The key role of recognition in explaining the positive relationship between social relationships and subjective well-being."
May 14 - 15:00, Goodwin Room
New @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!
Francis Munier (University of Strasbourg)
"I recognize you, you are happy: The key role of recognition in explaining the positive relationship between social relationships and subjective well-being."
May 14 - 15:00, Goodwin Room
May 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🚨TODAY🚨
New @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!
Francis Munier (University of Strasbourg)
"I recognize you, you are happy: The key role of recognition in explaining the positive relationship between social relationships and subjective well-being."
May 14 - 15:00, Goodwin Room
New @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!
Francis Munier (University of Strasbourg)
"I recognize you, you are happy: The key role of recognition in explaining the positive relationship between social relationships and subjective well-being."
May 14 - 15:00, Goodwin Room
One of my PhD articles is now available online. Open access at the Scandinavian Review of Economic History. In this article, I calculate skill premiums in Sweden for 1900-1950 using occupational incomes from tax returns. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unravelling income differentials: exploring the decline in skill premiums in twentieth-century Sweden
This paper documents the evolution of income differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in Sweden throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using newly digitised data on income t...
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May 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
One of my PhD articles is now available online. Open access at the Scandinavian Review of Economic History. In this article, I calculate skill premiums in Sweden for 1900-1950 using occupational incomes from tax returns. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‼️‼️ Make sure to register to register to this wonderful chance to listen to Nobel prize winner Claudia Golding.
The event will be broadcasted on livestream, make sure you don’t miss it! 🖥️
www.gu.se/en/event/cla...
The event will be broadcasted on livestream, make sure you don’t miss it! 🖥️
www.gu.se/en/event/cla...
Claudia Goldin: Why Women Won
Join the 2025 edition of the Tore Browaldh Lecture, where Nobel Laureate and Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin talks about women's societal and economical changes and impact.
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April 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
‼️‼️ Make sure to register to register to this wonderful chance to listen to Nobel prize winner Claudia Golding.
The event will be broadcasted on livestream, make sure you don’t miss it! 🖥️
www.gu.se/en/event/cla...
The event will be broadcasted on livestream, make sure you don’t miss it! 🖥️
www.gu.se/en/event/cla...
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New publication
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s
By K. Rönnbäck (@klasronnback.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) S. Galli (@galli-stef.bsky.social) and Dimitrios Theodoridis
academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s
By K. Rönnbäck (@klasronnback.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) S. Galli (@galli-stef.bsky.social) and Dimitrios Theodoridis
academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s
Abstract. In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to ac
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March 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
New publication
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s
By K. Rönnbäck (@klasronnback.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) S. Galli (@galli-stef.bsky.social) and Dimitrios Theodoridis
academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s
By K. Rönnbäck (@klasronnback.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) S. Galli (@galli-stef.bsky.social) and Dimitrios Theodoridis
academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...
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New publication
Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white collar-jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)
By Gabriele Cappelli (@gaber86.bsky.social) and Johannes Westberg (@dr-jwestberg.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white collar-jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)
By Gabriele Cappelli (@gaber86.bsky.social) and Johannes Westberg (@dr-jwestberg.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white-collar jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)
Abstract. The relationship between gender inequality and occupational segregation is a fascinating puzzle. New microdata on all primary school teachers in
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March 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
New publication
Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white collar-jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)
By Gabriele Cappelli (@gaber86.bsky.social) and Johannes Westberg (@dr-jwestberg.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white collar-jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)
By Gabriele Cappelli (@gaber86.bsky.social) and Johannes Westberg (@dr-jwestberg.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
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If you want to have an overview of this literature, and see new regional-comparative data and its potential, look no further! With Ridolfi, Vasta, and Westberg
Yes, in Open Access:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/2
Yes, in Open Access:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/2
Human capital in Europe, 1830s–1930s: A general survey
Human capital is now widely acknowledged as one of the key determinants of economic growth. Research on how human skills accumulate and evolve through time has grown rapidly in recent years. This pap...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If you want to have an overview of this literature, and see new regional-comparative data and its potential, look no further! With Ridolfi, Vasta, and Westberg
Yes, in Open Access:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/2
Yes, in Open Access:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/2
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🚨🚨🚨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark 🚨🚨🚨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools in a hands-on-approach. Join us 11-22 August 2025!
February 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🚨🚨🚨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark 🚨🚨🚨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools in a hands-on-approach. Join us 11-22 August 2025!
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I have a published paper! Read all about the development of rural household production in southern Sweden over the 18th and 19th centuries, and how it seems like everyone started spinning here in the 1700s. #earlymodern
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Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: evidence from rural Swedish probates | Rural History | Cambridge Core
Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: evidence from rural Swedish probates
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February 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I have a published paper! Read all about the development of rural household production in southern Sweden over the 18th and 19th centuries, and how it seems like everyone started spinning here in the 1700s. #earlymodern
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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⏳ Call for Papers – Baltic Connections 2025 🌍📜
📅 May 21–23, 2025 | 📍 Uni. Helsinki
📝 Deadline: Feb. 15
Economic, social & global history, with a focus on the Baltic Sea region & its wider connections. Keynotes: Gregory Clark, Astrid Kander & Mirva Peltoniemi
🔹 Info: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
📅 May 21–23, 2025 | 📍 Uni. Helsinki
📝 Deadline: Feb. 15
Economic, social & global history, with a focus on the Baltic Sea region & its wider connections. Keynotes: Gregory Clark, Astrid Kander & Mirva Peltoniemi
🔹 Info: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
January 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
⏳ Call for Papers – Baltic Connections 2025 🌍📜
📅 May 21–23, 2025 | 📍 Uni. Helsinki
📝 Deadline: Feb. 15
Economic, social & global history, with a focus on the Baltic Sea region & its wider connections. Keynotes: Gregory Clark, Astrid Kander & Mirva Peltoniemi
🔹 Info: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
📅 May 21–23, 2025 | 📍 Uni. Helsinki
📝 Deadline: Feb. 15
Economic, social & global history, with a focus on the Baltic Sea region & its wider connections. Keynotes: Gregory Clark, Astrid Kander & Mirva Peltoniemi
🔹 Info: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
I am one of the recipients of the Wallander postdoc scholarship. Super excited to work on my many ideas for the near future, and feeling very grateful for the foundation for making this possible.
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Suvi Heikkuri receives the Wallander scholarship 2024
Suvi Heikkuri is one of the recipients of the Wallander scholarship 2024. The scholarship is awarded by the foundation “Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse”, and th...
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January 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I am one of the recipients of the Wallander postdoc scholarship. Super excited to work on my many ideas for the near future, and feeling very grateful for the foundation for making this possible.
www.gu.se/en/news/suvi...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration" by Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, Björn Eriksson, and Erik Prawitz. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration
(Forthcoming Article) - Despite significant circular migration flows historically and today, their economic
impacts remain understudied. Using data on predominantly rural Swedish migrants
who returned...
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January 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Home, Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration" by Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, Björn Eriksson, and Erik Prawitz. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
