PROGRAMME
14:15-14:30 Welcome (Michelangelo Vasta)
SESSION 1 (14:30-16:00) - Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies, Pisa)
14:30-15:00
Servants’ wages and labour market competitiveness: Evidence from England and Wales, 1780-1834
Moritz Kaiser (Tübingen University)
15:00-15:30
Unreal Wages? Daily wages, annual salaries and labour Incomes in Early Modern Spain: Seville, 1530-1833
Ernesto López Losa (Universidad del País Vasco)
15:30-16:00
Unearthing wage dynamics: Determinants and inequalities in pre-modern German rural labour markets
Florian Probst (University of Münster)
COFFEE BREAK (16:00-16:30)
SESSION 2 (16:30-17:30) - Chair: Leonardo Ridolfi (University of Siena)
16:30-17:00
Why do firms invent? Evidence from Swedish manufacturing firms before the Great War
David Husfeldt (Lund University)
17:00-17:30
Operation paperclip: Nazi scientist and U.S. innovation
Bang Dinh Nguyen (University of Bayreuth)
VISIT TO THE SIENA CATHEDRAL WITH THE VIEW OF ITS FLOOR Opera del Duomo (17:30-19:00)
WORKSHOP DINNER (20:30-) Ristorante I Terzi (map)
SESSION 3 (09:30-11:30) Chair: Anna Missiaia (Gothenburg University)
09:30-10:00
Female inventorship in autocratic regimes: The cases of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic
Finni Jo Erdmann (University of Mannheim)
10:00-10:30
Liberation technology? The impact of the sewing machine in 19th century United States
Davide Coluccia (University of Bristol)
10:30-11:00
Job quality and innovation: What can we learn from two Industrial Revolutions?
Robin Philips (Universitè Catholique de Louvain)
11:00-11:30
Breaking the HISCO barrier: Automatic occupational standardization with OccCANINE
Christian Vedel Sorensen (University of Southern Denmark)
COFFEE BREAK (11:30-12:00)
AULA ROMANI (12:00-13:00)
Keynote lecture: Leandro Prados De La Escosura (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
The Race between Well-being and Economic Growth
LUNCH (13-14.30)
SESSION 4 (14:30-16:00) Chair: Blanca Sanchez-Alonso (Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid)
14:30-15:00
The race between education and technology in Mexico, 1870-1980
Enrique De la Rosa-Ramos (King’s College London)
15:00-15:30
How poor was the impoverished sophisticate? Swedish living standards in comparative perspective
Johan Ericsson (Uppsala University)
15:30-16:00
Innocence and experience: early childhood education as an externality in late Eighteenth-century London
Louis Henderson (University of Tübingen)
16:00-16:15 Final Address (Michelangelo Vasta)
