Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311616 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1516
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We document that large cities were instrumental in shaping women's work and family outcomes in the early 20th century. We focus on migrants to Stockholm, Sweden's largest city, using representative, linked census data. Female migrants to Stockholm saw persistent changes in work and family outcomes over the life-cycle. Migrants were approximately 50 percentage points more likely to enter the labor force and less likely to marry or have children than their sisters migrating to rural areas. They experienced skill-upgrading and higher real incomes, without adverse mortality effects. Early structural shifts towards services partly explain these patterns.
Subjects: 
Female labor force participation
Migration
Urbanization
Economic history
JEL: 
N93
I15
Q25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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