Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages

Hatcher, John

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“…Further, they highlight the lack of regulating bodies controlling and collecting statistics. 30 To avoid waste or fraud, bailiffs and scribes at the estates of the Swedish Crown had to keep highly detailed accounts following a standardized accounting practice. At the end of the fiscal year, at Michaelmas, the accounts were sent to Stockholm for auditing by the clerks of the central administration, which further strengthened the uniformity of the book keeping practices.…”

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Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’

Molinder

Pihl

2022

The Economic History Review

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We use a unique source from the Swedish royal demesnes to examine the work and relative wages of women in sixteenth century Sweden, an economic laggard in the Early Modern period. The source pertains to workers hired on yearly contracts, a type more representative for historical labour markets than day-labour on large construction sites, and allows us to observe directly the food consumed by workers. We speak to the debate on the "Little Divergence" within Europe as women's work and gender differentials in pay is a key indicator of women's relative autonomy and seen as a cause for the economic ascendency of the North Sea region during the period. We find small gender differentials among both unskilled and skilled workers, indicating that Sweden was a part of the "golden age" for women. We argue that despite superficial equality, women's economic outlooks were restrained in many other waysincluding their access to higher skilled work and jobs in the expanding parts of the economyadding important nuance to the discussion about the relationship between women's social position and economic growth in the Early Modern period.

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Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’

Molinder

Pihl

2022

The Economic History Review

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“…Of note,Hatcher (2018) criticizes Broadberry et al's nominal and real wage series (pp. 31-2 and note 94) just as he criticizes their notable predecessors',Brown and Hopkins (1955, 1956),Allen (2001) andClark (2005Clark ( , 2007.…”

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Wealth and shifting demand pressures on the price level in England after the Black Death

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Mélitz

2022

Cliometrica

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The scale of the rise in personal wealth following the Black Death calls the life-cycle hypothesis of consumption into consideration. Based on price level evidence, this paper shows for the first time that the wealth effect of the Black Death on economic activity continued in England for generations, up to 1450. Indeed, in the absence of consideration of the wealth effect, other influences on the price level do not even appear in the econometric analysis. The shift in tastes toward higher quality goods, luxuries and imports stemming from the per capita windfall for the survivors in the mid-fourteenth century plays a substantial part in the analysis. So does England’s little influence on the relative prices of its imports relative to home goods. The separate effects of coinage, population, trade, wages and annual number of days worked for wages on the price level all also receive major attention and new results follow for adjustment in the labor market.

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Ridolfi

2024

Handbook of Cliometrics

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Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’

Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’

Wealth and shifting demand pressures on the price level in England after the Black Death

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