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Hillary Vipond is a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Transforming Economies team at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. Her research examines how technological change reshapes labour markets, social mobility, and regional inequality. Her focus is on 19th century Britain through the Second Industrial Revolution.
Her current work develops fine-grained occupational data from individual-level census records to measure job creation and job loss in Victorian Britain. Her main project studies the mechanisation of English bootmaking between 1851 and 1911. She shows that the new labour-saving technology did not displace existing workers, but rather led to a collapse in the entry rates of young workers.
She completed her PhD in Economic History at the London School of Economics. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and was a visiting student at the Harvard Growth Lab in 2024.