Björn Eriksson
Biographic Data
| ID | 210455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Björn Eriksson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Björn |
| FAMILY NAME | Eriksson |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7624-4456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Schumpeter hotel? Surname status inequality and persistence in Sweden, 1880–2015
Conventional social mobility research misses substantial inequalities of opportunity. To capture intergenerational persistence of family social status, we need to move beyond parent-child associations in occupation or income. We study the inheritance of surname status as a group-level process, using full-count population data for Sweden between 1880 and 2015 and surname types reflecting pre-industrial social strata. Our analyses show that social …
Watching or catching sharks
Oceans are facing severe pressure from human activities, compromising the resilience of marine ecosystems. In response, blue economy initiatives aim to foster less extractive maritime sectors, yet emerging industries risk conflict with established ones over shared resources. One such challenge is the exploitation of pelagic shark species in the North Atlantic, particularly the blue shark ( Prionace glauca ) and the shortfin mako shark ( Isurus ox…
Historical manufacturing census of Sweden
This article presents a comprehensive database featuring the digitized, cleaned, geocoded, and linked data of the Swedish manufacturing censuses between 1863 and 1900. The data covers close to the universe of Swedish manufacturing activity and includes establishment-level information on workers, the sum of production value, and toll as output value. The article describes how the data was originally collected and the steps taken to go from raw dat…
Toward contested seas? A review of geopolitical trends at sea in the 21st century
In the Anthropocene, the world’s oceans have come under unprecedented human pressure. Countries have responded to this pressure by organizing themselves internationally around the idea of sustainable ocean governance. However, the geopolitical context in which sustainable ocean governance has taken shape in recent decades has begun to shift. After two centuries marked by British and American maritime hegemony, several other states are now asserti…
The Long-Term Development of the Mortality Gradient
Despite the affluence of modern societies, socioeconomic gradients in health and lifespan are widespread across the developed world. A mortality gradient by socioeconomic status (SES) is evident even in the most egalitarian welfare societies, where basic needs like food, safe housing, and health care are universally provided. However, it remains unclear whether such a gradient also existed in historical societies. We use linked full-count censuse…
A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40
The aim of this study was to describe gender-related differences in characteristics and mortality in heart failure (HF) patients managed in primary care (PC). We included 1802 hF patients aged 77.5 ± 8.8 years (47% women) with ejection fraction (EF) ≥ 40% from the Swedish Heart Failure (SwedeHF) registry. The patients were divided by gender, and by heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF; EF 40–49%) or heart failure with prese…
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State
We use historical census data to show that Sweden exhibited high levels of intergenerational occupational mobility several decades before the rise of the welfare state. Mobility rates were higher than in other nineteenth- and twentieth-century European countries, closer to those observed in the highly mobile nineteenth-century United States. We leverage mobility variation across Swedish municipalities to shed light on potential determinants: econ…
Industrious migrants
Migration played a central role in industrialisation by reallocating labour from the countryside to urban areas and centres of manufacturing where it was in high demand, and better remunerated, with implications for economic growth and individual well-being. We investigate the labour market performance of internal migrants in Sweden around the turn of the last century; a period of industrialisation and increasing migration. We add to the literatu…
The Effect of Parental Loss on Social Mobility in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
Parents are assumed to play a crucial role in the socioeconomic attainment of children. Through investments of both time and resources, they promote the ability, human capital, networks, and motivation of their children to advance socially, or at least to maintain their social position. Consequently, losing a parent in childhood could be detrimental to adult socioeconomic outcomes. We use full-count linked census data and a comprehensive death re…
The impact of kin proximity on net marital fertility and maternal survival in Sweden 1900–1910—Evidence for cooperative breeding in a societal context of nuclear families, or just contextual correlati…
OBJECTIVE: We investigate the association between the geographic proximity of the grandparents on net marital fertility and maternal survival in Sweden, 1900-1910, within the framework of the cooperative-breeding-hypothesis. METHODS: Data were derived from Swedish full-count censuses (1880-1910) and the Swedish Death Index. Married couples were linked to their parental households. Poisson and logistic regression analyses were used to investigate …
The long-term consequences of parental death in childhood on mortality and the role of socioeconomic status
The death of a parent during childhood is a major traumatic event. While there is a good understanding of the early-life effects of parental loss, the evidence regarding its impact on adult mortality is still scarce. Accordingly, the aim of this article is to study the long-term consequences of parental loss on mortality with a particular focus on differences by socioeconomic status (SES) of the family. We use data from 1880, 1890, 1900, and 1910…
Migration, marriage and social mobility
A winning strategy? The employment of women and firm longevity during industrialisation
Why do certain firms prosper and grow old while other firms fail? Established knowledge tells us that longevity is related to the firm's ability to adapt to market conditions, through product diversification, learning-by-doing and adopting new strategies regarding technology, human resources and management. By estimating duration models using new data covering the entire Swedish tobacco industry, we find that firms employing more women were consi…
Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay
Women have typically been paid less than men throughout history. We investigate earnings in Swedish cigar making around 1900. Strength was unimportant, yet the gender wage gap was large. Differences in characteristics, such as age and experience, and different jobs within firms, account for two-thirds of the gap overall, and the entire gap for piece-rate workers. Firms were as willing to employ women as men in the better-paying piece-rate section…
Johan Asplund
Johan Asplund holds an exceptional position in Swedish sociology. Although widely read, his books do not fit the normal scientific pattern, which makes him into something of a riddle to many sociologists. In this essay, I consider Asplund's work as a whole, sketch the progression of central ideas and portray his way of working. I also attempt to characterize Johan Asplund's position in Swedish sociology, and to delineate some of its consequences …
Företrädare och ställföreträdare. Om sociala handlingspositioner
Vertreter and Stellvertreter: On acting from a positionThe article is part of an attempt to build a structural theory of interaction. It tries to identify a limited set of acting positions - Vertreter, Stellvertreter and personal acting. The theoretical point concerning these acting positions is that each demand a stable set of acts, and work from different logics. This stability is unmoved by such things as changes in the identity or in the pref…
Mobbning
Harassments: a sociological discussionThe article tries to establish a sociological model of bullying and continuous harassment, a phenomenon named “mobbning” in Swedish. The model is under construction, and the main issue in the article is to locate and formulate the important aspects of how “mobbning” originates and why it continues. “Mobbning” is a common phenomenon, and has proved to be difficult to outroot despite continuous efforts. The phe…
Handlingar och utfall. En diskussion om samhandlingslogiker
Actions and outcomes. A discussion of two logics of co-actionThe article takes its point of departure from the three answers Other may give to Ego’s acts. Other may receive Ego’s act, and by that continue to accept Ego as an actor in the system. Or Other can demand an alternative act, which includes an acceptance of Ego as a continuous actor. Or, Other can reject the act of Ego, and by that also Ego as an actor. Ego is supposed to prefer Other’s …
The first formulation of sociology
It is a commonplace observation of most sociology textbooks and of many historical discussions that the label or name 'sociology' was invented by Auguste Comte in the 1830s. I will raise no dispute concerning this, since none is possible, but I will strongly confront an often made corollary from this observation, namely that the discourse or conceptual frame of sociology was also invented or formulated by Auguste Comte. I will maintain that such …
Small events-big events
The aim of the article is to define and delimit a fundamental historical change in the construction of causal models and causal explanations on topics dependent on time. The author met with the problem while working with a study on the emergence of the sociological discourse, but had no opportunity then to elaborate it
Migration, marriage and social mobility
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State
We use historical census data to show that Sweden exhibited high levels of intergenerational occupational mobility several decades before the rise of the welfare state. Mobility rates were higher than in other nineteenth- and twentieth-century European countries, closer to those observed in the highly mobile nineteenth-century United States. We leverage mobility variation across Swedish municipalities to shed light on potential determinants: econ…
The first formulation of sociology
It is a commonplace observation of most sociology textbooks and of many historical discussions that the label or name 'sociology' was invented by Auguste Comte in the 1830s. I will raise no dispute concerning this, since none is possible, but I will strongly confront an often made corollary from this observation, namely that the discourse or conceptual frame of sociology was also invented or formulated by Auguste Comte. I will maintain that such …
A winning strategy? The employment of women and firm longevity during industrialisation
Why do certain firms prosper and grow old while other firms fail? Established knowledge tells us that longevity is related to the firm's ability to adapt to market conditions, through product diversification, learning-by-doing and adopting new strategies regarding technology, human resources and management. By estimating duration models using new data covering the entire Swedish tobacco industry, we find that firms employing more women were consi…
Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay
Women have typically been paid less than men throughout history. We investigate earnings in Swedish cigar making around 1900. Strength was unimportant, yet the gender wage gap was large. Differences in characteristics, such as age and experience, and different jobs within firms, account for two-thirds of the gap overall, and the entire gap for piece-rate workers. Firms were as willing to employ women as men in the better-paying piece-rate section…
The Long-Term Development of the Mortality Gradient
Despite the affluence of modern societies, socioeconomic gradients in health and lifespan are widespread across the developed world. A mortality gradient by socioeconomic status (SES) is evident even in the most egalitarian welfare societies, where basic needs like food, safe housing, and health care are universally provided. However, it remains unclear whether such a gradient also existed in historical societies. We use linked full-count censuse…
The Effect of Parental Loss on Social Mobility in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
Parents are assumed to play a crucial role in the socioeconomic attainment of children. Through investments of both time and resources, they promote the ability, human capital, networks, and motivation of their children to advance socially, or at least to maintain their social position. Consequently, losing a parent in childhood could be detrimental to adult socioeconomic outcomes. We use full-count linked census data and a comprehensive death re…
The long-term consequences of parental death in childhood on mortality and the role of socioeconomic status
The death of a parent during childhood is a major traumatic event. While there is a good understanding of the early-life effects of parental loss, the evidence regarding its impact on adult mortality is still scarce. Accordingly, the aim of this article is to study the long-term consequences of parental loss on mortality with a particular focus on differences by socioeconomic status (SES) of the family. We use data from 1880, 1890, 1900, and 1910…
Small events-big events
The aim of the article is to define and delimit a fundamental historical change in the construction of causal models and causal explanations on topics dependent on time. The author met with the problem while working with a study on the emergence of the sociological discourse, but had no opportunity then to elaborate it
Small events-big events
The aim of the article is to define and delimit a fundamental historical change in the construction of causal models and causal explanations on topics dependent on time. The author met with the problem while working with a study on the emergence of the sociological discourse, but had no opportunity then to elaborate it
The first formulation of sociology
It is a commonplace observation of most sociology textbooks and of many historical discussions that the label or name 'sociology' was invented by Auguste Comte in the 1830s. I will raise no dispute concerning this, since none is possible, but I will strongly confront an often made corollary from this observation, namely that the discourse or conceptual frame of sociology was also invented or formulated by Auguste Comte. I will maintain that such …
Handlingar och utfall. En diskussion om samhandlingslogiker
Actions and outcomes. A discussion of two logics of co-actionThe article takes its point of departure from the three answers Other may give to Ego’s acts. Other may receive Ego’s act, and by that continue to accept Ego as an actor in the system. Or Other can demand an alternative act, which includes an acceptance of Ego as a continuous actor. Or, Other can reject the act of Ego, and by that also Ego as an actor. Ego is supposed to prefer Other’s …
Mobbning
Harassments: a sociological discussionThe article tries to establish a sociological model of bullying and continuous harassment, a phenomenon named “mobbning” in Swedish. The model is under construction, and the main issue in the article is to locate and formulate the important aspects of how “mobbning” originates and why it continues. “Mobbning” is a common phenomenon, and has proved to be difficult to outroot despite continuous efforts. The phe…
Företrädare och ställföreträdare. Om sociala handlingspositioner
Vertreter and Stellvertreter: On acting from a positionThe article is part of an attempt to build a structural theory of interaction. It tries to identify a limited set of acting positions - Vertreter, Stellvertreter and personal acting. The theoretical point concerning these acting positions is that each demand a stable set of acts, and work from different logics. This stability is unmoved by such things as changes in the identity or in the pref…
Johan Asplund
Johan Asplund holds an exceptional position in Swedish sociology. Although widely read, his books do not fit the normal scientific pattern, which makes him into something of a riddle to many sociologists. In this essay, I consider Asplund's work as a whole, sketch the progression of central ideas and portray his way of working. I also attempt to characterize Johan Asplund's position in Swedish sociology, and to delineate some of its consequences …
Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay
Women have typically been paid less than men throughout history. We investigate earnings in Swedish cigar making around 1900. Strength was unimportant, yet the gender wage gap was large. Differences in characteristics, such as age and experience, and different jobs within firms, account for two-thirds of the gap overall, and the entire gap for piece-rate workers. Firms were as willing to employ women as men in the better-paying piece-rate section…
A winning strategy? The employment of women and firm longevity during industrialisation
Why do certain firms prosper and grow old while other firms fail? Established knowledge tells us that longevity is related to the firm's ability to adapt to market conditions, through product diversification, learning-by-doing and adopting new strategies regarding technology, human resources and management. By estimating duration models using new data covering the entire Swedish tobacco industry, we find that firms employing more women were consi…
Migration, marriage and social mobility
The impact of kin proximity on net marital fertility and maternal survival in Sweden 1900–1910—Evidence for cooperative breeding in a societal context of nuclear families, or just contextual correlati…
OBJECTIVE: We investigate the association between the geographic proximity of the grandparents on net marital fertility and maternal survival in Sweden, 1900-1910, within the framework of the cooperative-breeding-hypothesis. METHODS: Data were derived from Swedish full-count censuses (1880-1910) and the Swedish Death Index. Married couples were linked to their parental households. Poisson and logistic regression analyses were used to investigate …
The long-term consequences of parental death in childhood on mortality and the role of socioeconomic status
The death of a parent during childhood is a major traumatic event. While there is a good understanding of the early-life effects of parental loss, the evidence regarding its impact on adult mortality is still scarce. Accordingly, the aim of this article is to study the long-term consequences of parental loss on mortality with a particular focus on differences by socioeconomic status (SES) of the family. We use data from 1880, 1890, 1900, and 1910…
Industrious migrants
Migration played a central role in industrialisation by reallocating labour from the countryside to urban areas and centres of manufacturing where it was in high demand, and better remunerated, with implications for economic growth and individual well-being. We investigate the labour market performance of internal migrants in Sweden around the turn of the last century; a period of industrialisation and increasing migration. We add to the literatu…
The Effect of Parental Loss on Social Mobility in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
Parents are assumed to play a crucial role in the socioeconomic attainment of children. Through investments of both time and resources, they promote the ability, human capital, networks, and motivation of their children to advance socially, or at least to maintain their social position. Consequently, losing a parent in childhood could be detrimental to adult socioeconomic outcomes. We use full-count linked census data and a comprehensive death re…
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State
We use historical census data to show that Sweden exhibited high levels of intergenerational occupational mobility several decades before the rise of the welfare state. Mobility rates were higher than in other nineteenth- and twentieth-century European countries, closer to those observed in the highly mobile nineteenth-century United States. We leverage mobility variation across Swedish municipalities to shed light on potential determinants: econ…
A higher mortality in men compared to women with heart failure in primary care and ejection fraction equal to or more than 40
The aim of this study was to describe gender-related differences in characteristics and mortality in heart failure (HF) patients managed in primary care (PC). We included 1802 hF patients aged 77.5 ± 8.8 years (47% women) with ejection fraction (EF) ≥ 40% from the Swedish Heart Failure (SwedeHF) registry. The patients were divided by gender, and by heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF; EF 40–49%) or heart failure with prese…
Toward contested seas? A review of geopolitical trends at sea in the 21st century
In the Anthropocene, the world’s oceans have come under unprecedented human pressure. Countries have responded to this pressure by organizing themselves internationally around the idea of sustainable ocean governance. However, the geopolitical context in which sustainable ocean governance has taken shape in recent decades has begun to shift. After two centuries marked by British and American maritime hegemony, several other states are now asserti…
The Long-Term Development of the Mortality Gradient
Despite the affluence of modern societies, socioeconomic gradients in health and lifespan are widespread across the developed world. A mortality gradient by socioeconomic status (SES) is evident even in the most egalitarian welfare societies, where basic needs like food, safe housing, and health care are universally provided. However, it remains unclear whether such a gradient also existed in historical societies. We use linked full-count censuse…
A Schumpeter hotel? Surname status inequality and persistence in Sweden, 1880–2015
Conventional social mobility research misses substantial inequalities of opportunity. To capture intergenerational persistence of family social status, we need to move beyond parent-child associations in occupation or income. We study the inheritance of surname status as a group-level process, using full-count population data for Sweden between 1880 and 2015 and surname types reflecting pre-industrial social strata. Our analyses show that social …
Watching or catching sharks
Oceans are facing severe pressure from human activities, compromising the resilience of marine ecosystems. In response, blue economy initiatives aim to foster less extractive maritime sectors, yet emerging industries risk conflict with established ones over shared resources. One such challenge is the exploitation of pelagic shark species in the North Atlantic, particularly the blue shark ( Prionace glauca ) and the shortfin mako shark ( Isurus ox…
Historical manufacturing census of Sweden
This article presents a comprehensive database featuring the digitized, cleaned, geocoded, and linked data of the Swedish manufacturing censuses between 1863 and 1900. The data covers close to the universe of Swedish manufacturing activity and includes establishment-level information on workers, the sum of production value, and toll as output value. The article describes how the data was originally collected and the steps taken to go from raw dat…
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