Claridge, J., Delabastita, V., & Gibbs, S. (forthcoming). The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages. The Economic History Review.
[LSE Economic History Working Paper No. 375]

Delabastita, V., & Rubens, M. (2025). Colluding against workers. Journal of Political Economy, 133(6), 1796-1839.
[URL][Accepted Version] [Online Appendix][SSRN] 

Claridge, J., Delabastita, V., & Gibbs, S. (2024). (In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money. Explorations in Economic History, 94, 101626.
[URL] [Accepted Version] [LSE Blog]

Delabastita, V., & Maes, S. (2023). The feudal origins of manorial prosperity: Social interactions in 11th-century England. The Journal of Economic History, 83(2), 464-500.
[URL] [Accepted Version] [EHES Working Paper No. 190]

Buyst, E., & Delabastita, V. (2023). Regional inequalities in nineteenth-century female wages: Evidence from Belgium . The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 54(1), 83-110.
[URL] [Accepted Version]

Delabastita, V., & Buyst, E. (2021). Intergenerational mobility of sons and daughters: Evidence from 19th-century West Flanders. European Review of Economic History, 25(2), 300-327.
[URL] [Blog] [Online Appendix]

Technological progress in slack labor markets
Joint with Maarten Goos
Available on SSRN

Women’s wages and job quality in the 1920s United States
Joint with Meredith Paker & Ben Schneider
Available as Oxford Economic and Social History Working Paper No. 223

Political fragmentation and the spatial allocation of human capital
Joint with Joris Hoste & Sebastiaan Maes

The Black Death as a structural market transformation?
Joint with Jordan Claridge, Spike Gibbs & Greg Salter

Transportation networks, input access and technology adoption: Evidence from the spread of steam power
Joint with Geert Goeyvaerts, Sander Ramboer, Jakob Vanschoonbeek & Andreas Vueghs

Fueling the Industrial Revolution: Coal and child labor
Joint with Andreas Vueghs

Careers vs. Jobs: Career-long earnings and the mismeasurement of historical living standards
Joint with Robin Philips, Meredith Paker, Auke Rijpma & Ben Schneider

Delabastita, V. (2024). Summaries of doctoral dissertations. The Journal of Economic History, 84(2), 593–627.
[URL]
(Back from when my PhD thesis was nominated for the 2023 Alexander Gerschenkron Prize.)

Philips, R., & Delabastita, V. (2020). Une perspective comparative sur le travail en Belgique des années 1830 aux années 1930.
In J-M. Olivier (Ed.), Le travail en Europe Occidentale des années 1830 aux années 1930: Mains d'Œuvres artisanales et industrielles, pratiques et questions sociales. Armand Colin.
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