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

TY - CONF

T1 - Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements. The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality

AU - Ros, Ruben

AU - Van Erp, Marieke

AU - Rijpma, Auke

AU - Zijdeman, Richard

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - 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 socioeconomic analysis of textual data sources.

AB - 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 socioeconomic analysis of textual data sources.

KW - historical newspaper

KW - income analysis

KW - information extraction

KW - job ads

KW - occupations

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/54788a97-3791-3d21-b304-30630e89d675/

M3 - Paper

ER -