Landpacht, Marktgesellschaft und agrarische Entwicklung

Bracht, Johannes; Pfister, Ulrich

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Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850

Alfani¹,

Gierok²,

Schaff³

2022

J. Econ. Hist.

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This article provides an overview of wealth inequality in Germany during 1300–1850, introducing a novel database. We document four alternating phases of inequality decline and growth. The Black Death (1347–1352) led to inequality decline, until about 1450. Thereafter, inequality rose steadily. The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) and the 1627–1629 plague triggered a second phase of inequality reduction. This distinguishes Germany from other European areas where inequality grew monotonically. Inequality growth resumed from about 1700, well before the Industrial Revolution. Our findings offer new material to current debates on the determinants of inequality change in western societies, past and present.

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Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850

Alfani¹,

Gierok²,

Schaff³

2022

J. Econ. Hist.

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Measuring Historical Inequality in Germany

Albers,

Bartels,

Schaff

2024

German Economic Review

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This article surveys the measurement of historical wealth and income inequality in Germany. We discuss the underlying data sources, the challenges they pose, and the opportunities they create. We also identify two promising avenues for future research. First, we argue that the geographic granularity of German historical statistics provides researchers with the opportunity to investigate the causes of inequality. Second, several dimensions of historical inequality remain under-explored, for example, the equalizing role of welfare state institutions such as public pensions.

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Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800

Pfister

2020

Disuguaglianza Economica Nelle Società Preindustriali: Cause Ed Effetti / Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Societies: Caus

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The chapter reviews existing evidence regarding four aspects of economic inequality: relative factor rents, which relate to the factorial distribution of income and also underlie the so-called Williamson index (y/wus), which is correlated with the Gini index of household income; real inequality in terms of opposite movements of the price of consumer baskets consumed by different strata of society; the inequality of pay according to gender and skill, as well as between town and countryside; and wealth inequality, particularly with respect to the access to land. The main result is that, with given technology and agrarian institutions, there is a positive correlation between population and inequality.

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Landpacht, Marktgesellschaft und agrarische Entwicklung

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Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850

Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850

Measuring Historical Inequality in Germany

Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800

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