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Sven Hellroth serves as an IT Administrator and Researcher at Stockholm University's Department of Economic History and International Relations, a position he has held since 2018. His dual role combines technical support responsibilities with significant scholarly research contributions in Swedish economic history.
Dr. Hellroth earned his Ph.D. in Economic History from Stockholm University in 2011 with a dissertation examining From Labour Statistics to Business Tendency Survey: Labour Question and the Emergence of a Public Monitoring System of the Swedish Economy 1893-1914. His research traces how growing concerns about labor issues at the end of the nineteenth century drove the development of early economic monitoring systems in Sweden.
His scholarly work focuses on the historical development of statistical systems for monitoring the Swedish economy from the 17th century through the 1930s, with particular attention to business tendency surveys and labor statistics. He has conducted important research on the evolution of Swedish labor market policies from Keynesian approaches in the 1990s toward neoliberal frameworks, analyzing how job search intensity correlates with business community diversity and demonstrating that foreign-born unemployed individuals generally exhibit higher job search intensity than domestically-born counterparts.
Dr. Hellroth's publication record reveals consistent scholarly engagement with Sweden's economic history, particularly examining the intersection between labor issues, economic policy development, and governmental institutions. His research spans institutional history, archival studies, and labor market analysis, with publications appearing in Historisk Tidskrift and other respected academic venues.
- Recipient of Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Research Foundation scholarship (Fh18-0028) in December 2018
- Completed jubilee publication on Stockholm University's first professorship in economic history (1949)
- Working on manuscript about early statistical monitoring of the Swedish economy (scheduled 2025 publication)
While providing essential IT support to the department, Dr. Hellroth maintains an active research agenda, currently inventorying Ph.D. Rolf G Henriksson's extensive archive and book collection covering Economic History and Economics from the late 1960s to early 1980s, with presentations at Economic Historical Meetings in Uppsala (2019) and Gothenburg (2021).
