Chiaki Yamamoto MA MPhil PhD

Visiting Scholar, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

English Economic History with special interests in rural labour markets, living standards of agricultural labourers, and job opportunities of female rural workers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Biography

Career

2009-present: Visiting Academic, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
2009-present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan
2007-2009: Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University, Japan
2004-2007: Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University, Japan
2001-2004: Research Fellow, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Qualifications

2009: PhD in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
2001: MPhil in Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK
1996: MA in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Research

My Ph.D. examined rural labour markets in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. In particular, regional unemployment and two-layered labour markets of agricultural workers were explored. I am currently carrying out further research on female job opportunities and the occupational structure in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Publications

Selected publications

‘The Victorian Census—the census taking machinery of the 1841 Census—’, M. Yasumoto ed., International Comparison of Modern Statistics Institutions—the Evolution of Social Statistics in Europe and Asia (KINDAI TOKEI SEIDO NO KOKUSAIHIKAKU—AJIA TO YO-ROPPA NI OKERU SHAKAITOUKEI NO SEIRITSU TO TENKAI—), Chapter 4, Tokyo, 2007. (in Japanese)
‘Labour supply behaviour of female agricultural labourers—A case study of a farm in nineteenth-century England’, THE KEIZAI RONSHU (the Economic Review of Kansai University), vol. 56, no. 2, 2006. (in Japanese)
‘Digitization of British Parliamentary Papers (Census Reports)’, CHIIKI KENKYU, vol. 7, no. 1, 2005. (with M. Yasumoto) (in Japanese)
‘Two Labour Markets in Nineteenth-century English Agriculture: the Trentham Home Farm, Staffordshire’, Rural History, 15 (1), pp. 89-116, 2004.
‘Estimates of real wages and consumption in England at the end of the eighteenth century’, SHAKAI KEIZAI SHIGAKU, vol. 64, no. 5, 1999. (in Japanese)

Working papers

‘English Agriculture and Rural Labour Markets at the End of the Industrial Revolution’, Kansai University Discussion Paper Series, F-036, 2009.
‘When Did Mothers Work? Labour Supply and Childrearing behaviour of Rural Female Labourers in the Nineteenth Century’, Kansai University Discussion Paper Series, F-015, 2004.

Teaching

Economic History, Kansai University
Western Economic History, Kansai University

External activities

Member of Economic History Society
Committee Member of Socio-Economic History Society of Japan
Member of Population Association of Japan