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Real Wages and Labour Productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938 : A Unified Approach to the International Comparison of Living Standards
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938 : a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
, affecting the extent of poverty. -- Economic history ; Britain ; Germany ; Real wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862394
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Real Wages and the 'Malthusian Problem' in Antwerp and South-Eastern England, 1400 - 1700: A regional comparison of levels and trends in real wages
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
In a path-breaking but largely overlooked study, published in a festchrift thirty years ago (1975), Herman Van der Wee provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from 1400 to 1700. To do so, he constructed a composite...
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Real wages and labor productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871 - 1938 : a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Burhop, Carsten - In: The journal of economic history 70 (2010) 2, pp. 400-427
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Population Growth and Manufacturing Real Wages in 18th Century England : A Spatial Perspective
Behrens, Kristian - 2007
We develop a two-region population growth model of economic geography and show that a process of urbanization has a substantial impact on the evolution of manufacturing real wages. Whereas real wages decline as the population increases when the spatial structure of the economy is fixed, they...
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Institutions, Wages and Inequality : The Case of Europe and its Periphery (1500-1899)
Chor, Davin - 2005
This paper explores the long-run relationship between institutions and wage inequality in Europe and its periphery using a two-sector model. When institutions improve, wages rise across the board, thus reducing the costs of rural-urban migration and skills acquisition relative to the expected...
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The economic effects of the protestant reformation : testing the Weber hypothesis in the German lands
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300-1900, I find no...
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Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2012
markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic … activity, examining the foundation of Germany’s first universities after 1386 following the Papal Schism. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526171
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Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2013
markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic … important channel linking universities and greater economic activity in medieval Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199411
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic … activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first universities after 1386 following the Papal Schism. We find that the … important channel linking universities and greater economic activity in medieval Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073085