prices in rural Denmark for men, women and children, and for both skilled and unskilled workers over the eighteenth century …Granular microdata is of growing interest within economics and economic history. Thus, we document, present, and make … available to the scholarly community a uniquely detailed database of 20,152 observations of wages and 30,000 observations of …

city in modern-day southern Sweden, was a part of Denmark until the middle of the seventeenth century, located just across … and Denmark, going so far as to prohibit Swedish attendance to Copenhagen University and instead establishing its own …-being. We use a novel database of Danish and Swedish real wages to investigate the impact of these changes on Scanian living …

century the evolution of prices in Madrid was quite similar to those in most western and central European cities; 2) yearly …, Madrid was one of the cities of the old continent which showed the most abrupt fall in the wages of unskilled workers; 4 …

provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from … real wages for these craftsmen in Antwerp did not suffer the same deterioration as did comparable real wages in England … levels of the real wages were not shown. Most economic historians have attributed that significant fall in real wages …

It is well established that Denmark is one of the richest economies in the world nowadays with high living standards … and wages. But what about earlier times? This paper makes three contributions: firstly, it creates and describes a new and … rich data set on historical wage developments in Denmark, based on data gathered by the Danish Price History Project for …

In this paper we investigate the relation between population, wages and urban population in the Italian economy. During …

Existing series suggest wages in London were substantially higher than in other European cities from 1650 to 1800. This … and organisational context in which it was recorded. Institutional records of wages were profoundly affected by structural … changes in the seventeenth century, particularly the emergence of building contractors. The actual wages paid to London …