William Skoglund

I am an economic historian whose work focuses on the function of labor markets, in particular on how institutions such as unions or monopsonistic firms have come to shape the distribution of earnings. I defended my thesis in January 2026

I am currently working as a post-doc at the Department of Economics in Uppsala and am affiliated with the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, as well as the Uppsala History of Inequality and Labor Lab. I am a part of two current projects, one that focuses on the institutional transformation of the Swedish labor market during the twentieth century; and another that studies urban labor markets through the lens of Stockholm.

Reach me at: William.Skoglund@nek.uu.se

News:

I have a new working paper with Kerstin Enflo and Jakob Molinder, published as a CEPR discussion paper.