Hi-Stat Workshop Week on Historical Statistics

24-28 September 2007

Research Unit for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences (Hi-Stat)

 Institute of Economic Research (IER), Hitotsubashi University

 

Historical Occupational Structures:

Asian and European Perspectives

Sano Shoin, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo

28 September 2007

Programme

 

Organisers:

Leigh Shaw-Taylor, History Faculty, University of Cambridge, and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Osamu Saito, Research Unit for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences (Hi-Stat), IER, Hitotsubashi University

 

 

Session I: Asia                            10.00−12.45

 

1.         Daan Marks:

Occupational structure and structural change in Indonesia, 1880-2000

2.         Jae-Won Sun:

Occupational structure’s change in colonial Korea, 1930-40 

 

3.         Osamu Saito and Tokihiko Settsu:

Unveiling rural by-employment patterns and its implications for national income estimates in early phases of Japan’s industrialisation

 

Discussants:      Hal Hill

                      Erik Buyst

 

Session II: Europe                        15.00−17.45

 

4.         Leigh Shaw-Taylor:

The occupational structure of England c.1750-1871

   （View full version of the paper: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/introduction/）

5.         Erik Buyst:

Changes in the occupational structure of Belgium: New estimates for the 1846-1910 period

6.         Danielle van den Heuvel and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk:

Changing occupational structures? The Dutch labour market, c. 1580-1900

Discussants:      Marco van Leeuwen

                       Osamu Saito

 

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