Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements. The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality

Ruben Ros, Marieke van Erp, Auke Rijpma, Richard Zijdeman


Abstract
For the analysis of historical wage development, no structured data is available. Job advertisements, as found in newspapers can provide insights into what different types of jobs paid, but require language technology to structure in a format conducive to quantitative analysis. In this paper, we report on our experiments to mine wages from 19th century newspaper advertisements and detail the challenges that need to be overcome to perform a socio-economic analysis of textual data sources.
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2020.lr4sshoc-1.5
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Proceedings of the Workshop about Language Resources for the SSH Cloud
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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Daan Broeder, Maria Eskevich, Monica Monachini
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LR4SSHOC
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European Language Resources Association
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27–32
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English
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Ruben Ros, Marieke van Erp, Auke Rijpma, and Richard Zijdeman. 2020. Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements. The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality. In Proceedings of the Workshop about Language Resources for the SSH Cloud, pages 27–32, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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