Publications

Everything here is also listed in my CV and on Google Scholar (which also gives you BibTeX and formatted citations).

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Jonathan Jayes, Kerstin Enflo & Jakob Molinder (2025). “Power for Progress: The Impact of Electricity on Individual Labor Market Outcomes,” Explorations in Economic History. JournalCEPR working paper
  • Erik Bengtsson & Jakob Molinder (2025). “What Happened to the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-level Data, 1909–1950,” The Journal of Economic History. JournalWorking paper (Lund)
  • Johan Ericsson & Jakob Molinder (2025). “How Deep Are the Roots of Swedish Egalitarianism? A Multidimensional Approach,” European Review of Economic History. JournalWorking paper (Uppsala)
  • Jonatan Andersson & Jakob Molinder (2025). “Did Cities Increase Skills during Industrialization? Evidence from Rural-Urban Migration,” Journal of Urban Economics, 148. JournalWorking paper (Uppsala)
  • Erik Bengtsson & Jakob Molinder (2024). “Incomes and Income Inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from Micro Data,” Explorations in Economic History, 92. JournalWorking paper (Lund)
  • Martin Andersson & Jakob Molinder (2024). “Swedish Income Inequality in 1613,” Economic History Review, 77(4): 1336–1361. JournalWorking paper (Lund)
  • Thor Berger, Per Engzell, Björn Eriksson & Jakob Molinder (2023). “Intergenerational Mobility in Sweden Before the Welfare State,” The Journal of Economic History, 83(2): 431–463. JournalCEPR working paper
  • Jakob Molinder & Christopher Pihl (2022). “Women’s Work and Wages in the Sixteenth Century and Sweden’s Position in the ‘Little Divergence’,” The Economic History Review, 76(1): 145–168. Journal
  • Jakob Molinder (2022). “How Effective Are Mobility Subsidies in Targeting the Unemployed? Lessons from the Swedish Model, 1965–1975,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(4): 1724–1746. Journal
  • Jakob Molinder, Kerstin Enflo & Tobias Karlsson (2022). “Social Democracy and the Decline of Strikes,” Explorations in Economic History, 83: 1–19. JournalCEPRVoxEU
  • Jakob Molinder, Kerstin Enflo & Tobias Karlsson (2021). “More Power to the People: Electricity Adoption, Technological Change and Social Conflict,” The Journal of Economic History, 81(2): 481–512. JournalCEPRVoxEU
  • Johan Ericsson & Jakob Molinder (2020). “Economic Growth and the Development of Real Wages: Swedish Construction Workers’ Wages in Comparative Perspective, 1831–1900,” The Journal of Economic History, 80(3): 813–852. Journal
  • Jakob Molinder & Martin Söderhäll (2020). “Did Industrialization Lead to Segregation in Cities of the Nineteenth Century? The Case of Uppsala 1880–1900,” Scandinavian Economic History Review, 68(1): 23–44. Journal
  • Jakob Molinder (2019). “Wage Differentials, Economic Restructuring and the Solidaristic Wage Policy in Sweden,” European Review of Economic History, 23(1): 97–121. Journal
  • Jakob Molinder (2018). “Why Did Swedish Regional Net Migration Rates Fall in the 1970s? The Role of Policy Changes Versus Structural Change, 1945–1985,” Scandinavian Economic History Review, 66(1): 91–115. JournalUngated PDF
  • Jakob Molinder, Jan Ottosson, Lena Andersson-Skog & Lars Magnusson (2017). “What Can the State Do for You? Relocation Allowances and Regional Subsidies in Postwar Sweden,” Scandinavian Journal of History, 42(3): 273–298. Journal
  • Erik Bengtsson & Jakob Molinder (2017). “The Economic Effects of the 1920 Eight-Hour Working Day Reform in Sweden,” Scandinavian Economic History Review, 65(2): 149–168. Journal

Book chapters

  • Jakob Molinder, Tiago Pereira & Svante Prado (2022). “Poles Apart? Living Standards and Inequality by Labour Market Outcomes in Brazil and Sweden, ca. 1830–1920,” in D. Prado & J. Álvarez (eds.), Scandinavia and South America — A Tale of Two Capitalisms, pp. 245–285. Palgrave Macmillan. Publisher

Working papers & work in progress

  • L. Costa Ribeiro, Jonatan Andersson, William Skoglund, Jakob Molinder & Martin Önnerfors (2026). “Automated Historical Census Digitization Using Image Augmentation and Transformer-Based Methods,” EHES Working Paper No. 298. PDF
  • Jakob Molinder & Martin Önnerfors (2026). “The Early Evolution of Segregation and Neighborhood Disadvantage: Evidence from Stockholm during Industrialization, 1878–1950,” EHES Working Paper No. 294. PDF
  • William Skoglund & Jakob Molinder (2025). “Unions and the Great Leveling: Evidence from Across the Atlantic,” EHES Working Paper No. 292. PDF
  • Per-Anders Edin, Arizo Karimi, Jakob Molinder, Anton Sundberg & Peter Thoursie. “A Century of Child Penalties: Evidence from Sweden.” Work in progress.
  • Jakob Molinder, Edvin Syk & Max Thaning. “Stratification and Inequality: A Century of Social Class and Earnings Dynamics in Sweden.” Work in progress.
  • Jakob Molinder (2022). “Historical Roots of the Dual-Earner Model: Women’s Labour Force Participation in Sweden, 1870–1960,” Lund Papers in Economic History. PDF
  • Jakob Molinder (2019). “Why Was Unemployment So Low in Postwar Sweden? An Analysis with New Unemployment Data by Manufacturing Industry, 1935–1948,” Lund Papers in Economic History. PDF

Other writing (reference, policy & popular)

  • Svante Prado & Jakob Molinder (2022). “Modern Swedish Economic History,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Link
  • Kerstin Enflo, Tobias Karlsson & Jakob Molinder (2019). “Från Sundsvall till Saltsjöbaden – ett regionalt perspektiv på den svenska arbetsmarknaden,” Ekonomisk Debatt, (6): 5–17. Ekonomisk DebattPress coverage
  • Jakob Molinder, Kerstin Enflo & Tobias Karlsson (2019). “Electricity Adoption, Technological Change and Social Conflict,” VoxEU / CEPR column. Read
  • Jakob Molinder (2018). “Facklig organisering och ekonomisk jämlikhet,” report for the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO).
  • Jakob Molinder, Kerstin Enflo & Tobias Karlsson (2018). “Strikes and Local Politics,” VoxEU / CEPR column. Read
  • Jakob Molinder & Ola Pettersson (2013). “Arbetskostnadsandelens utveckling i Sverige,” Ekonomisk Debatt, (7): 18–28. Ekonomisk Debatt

PhD thesis

  • Jakob Molinder (2017). Interregional Migration, Wages and Labor Market Policy: Essays on the Swedish Model in the Postwar Period. Uppsala University (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis). PDF