Erik Bengtsson
About Erik Bengtsson
My name is Erik Bengtsson. I am a postdoctoral researcher in Economic History atLund University, and I also am affiliated with the Economic History Unit at University of Gothenburg, where I have a project on macroeconomic history and am involved in a Swedish-Brazilian teaching project. I finished my PhD in Gothenburg late 2013 and moved to Lund in 2015.
I do research on wealth distribution, industrial productivity, economic inequality, wage bargaining institutions, and income distribution in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. I would define my research focus as a mix of macroeconomic history and comparative political economy.
On other web sites
Research areas
- Income distribution
- Industrial relations
- Economic history
- Historical National Accounts
Research in progress
- Income Distribution, Asset Prices and Aggregate Demand Formation, 1850-2010: A Post-Keynesian Approach to Historical Macroeconomic Data, 2015-01 - 2018-10
Teaching areas
- European integration
- Social policy
- Economic history
- Industrial relations
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Wages, Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Long-Run Perspectives in Scandinavia,
1900-2010
Erik Bengtsson, E. Stockhammer
Review of Political Economy - 2020-01-01 -
The rise of the middle class: the income gap between salaried employees and workers in Sweden, ca.
1830–1940
Erik Bengtsson, Svante Prado
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2020-01-01 -
Financial effects in historic consumption and investment
functions
Erik Bengtsson, Engelbert Stockhammer
International Review of Applied Economics - 2020-01-01 -
Unequal poverty and equal industrialisation: Finnish wealth,
1750-1900
Erik Bengtsson, A. Missiaia, I. Nummela, M. Olsson
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2019-01-01 -
The Swedish Sonderweg in Question: Democratization and Inequality in Comparative Perspective,
c.1750–1920
Erik Bengtsson
Past & Present - 2019-01-01 -
The wealth of the Swedish peasant farmer class (1750–1900): Composition and
distribution
Erik Bengtsson, Patrick Svensson
Rural History - 2019-01-01 -
Aristocratic Wealth and Inequality in a Changing Society: Sweden,
1750–1900
Erik Bengtsson, Anna Missiaia, Mats Olsson, Patrick Svensson
Scandinavian Journal of History - 2019-01-01 -
Capital Shares and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Long
Run
Erik Bengtsson, Daniel Waldenström
Journal of Economic History - 2018-01-01 -
Recension av Erik Nydahl and Jonas Harvard (red.), Den nya staten: ideologi och samhällsförändring kring sekelskiftet
1900.
Erik Bengtsson
Historisk Tidskrift - 2018-01-01 -
The economic effects of the 1920 eight-hour working day reform in
Sweden
Erik Bengtsson, Jakob Molinder
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2017-01-01 -
Swedish Trade Unions and the
ETUC
Erik Bengtsson
National Trade Unions and ETUC: A History of Unity and Diversity, edited by Andrea Campiani and Pierre Tilly - 2017-01-01 -
Inequality and the working class in Scandinavia 1800–1910: Workers’ share of growing
incomes
Erik Bengtsson
Investigaciones de Historica Económica - 2017-01-01 -
Review of Marika Hedin, Håkan Holmberg, Anders Johnson & Svante Nycander, Karl Staaff: Arbetarvän, rösträttskämpe och socialreformator and Hans Lindblad, Karl Staaff: Försvaret och
demokratin.
Erik Bengtsson
Historisk Tidskrift - 2017-01-01 -
Why No Wage Solidarity Writ Large? Swedish Trade Unions under Conditions of European
Crisis
Erik Bengtsson, Magnus Ryner
Rough Waters: European Trade Unions in a Time of Crises - 2017-01-01 -
Märkets förhistoria: Så började industrins ledande roll i
lönebildningen
Erik Bengtsson
Arbetarhistoria - 2016-01-01 -
Social dumping cases in the Swedish Labour Court in the wake of Laval,
2004-2010
Erik Bengtsson
Economic and Industrial Democracy - 2016-01-01 -
Lohnzurückhaltung und Lohnmilitanz: Belgien, Deutschland und die Niederlande,
1950–2010
Erik Bengtsson
WSI-Mitteilungen - 2015-01-01 -
Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK
Organizing
Erik Bengtsson
Capital & Class - 2015-01-01 -
Wage Restraint in Scandinavia: in the Postwar Period or the Neoliberal
Age?
Erik Bengtsson
European Review of Economic History - 2015-01-01 -
Education, state and
citizenship
Erik Bengtsson
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2015-01-01 -
Productivity Relations among Second Wave Industrializers: Evidence from German–Swedish Benchmarks for 1907 and
1954
Erik Bengtsson, Svante Prado
11:e svenska ekonomisk-historiska mötet, Umeå, 8-10 oktober 2015 - 2015-01-01 -
The (International) Political Economy of Falling Wage Shares: Situating Working-Class
Agency
Erik Bengtsson, M. Ryner
New Political Economy - 2015-01-01 -
Do Unions Redistribute Income from Capital to Labour? Union Density and Wage Shares since
1960
Erik Bengtsson
Industrial relations journal - 2014-01-01 -
Labour’s Share in Twentieth Century Sweden: A
Reinterpretation
Erik Bengtsson
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2014-01-01 -
Swedish Trade Unions and European Union Migrant
Workers
Erik Bengtsson
Journal of Industrial Relations - 2013-01-01 -
Den sänkta löneandelen: Orsaker, konsekvenser och
handlingsalternativ
Erik Bengtsson
- 2013-01-01 -
Den ekonomiska globaliseringens dubbla
rörelse
Erik Bengtsson
Bortom horisonten: Fackets vägval i globaliseringens tid - 2013-01-01 -
Klasskamp uppifrån? Förändrade klassförhållanden och ökad inkomstojämlikhet i USA sedan
1980
Erik Bengtsson
Fronesis - 2013-01-01 -
Organisera eller rekrytera? En rapport om facklig
förnyelse
Erik Bengtsson
- 2013-01-01 -
“”Matchen mot Japan kan bara vinnas med socialistisk taktik”: Skildringar av globaliseringen i tidningen Metallarbetaren
1975-1989”
Erik Bengtsson
Arbetarhistoria - 2008-01-01 -
Bokrecension av Naazneen H Barma & Steven K Vogel, The Political Economy
Reader
Erik Bengtsson
Arena - 2008-01-01