Six Centuries of Real Wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250-1860

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050719000354
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 589-627
• 关键词: economic-growth; industrial-revolution; living standards; farm wages; england; prices; divergence; britain; paris; population

摘要

Evidence of an early modern Little divergence in real wages between northwestern Europe and the rest of the continent is mostly based on the comparative study of a sample of leading European cities. Focusing on France and England this study reassesses the debate from a country-level perspective. The findings challenge the notion of an early modern divergence pointing to the coexistence of both divergence and convergence phases until the eighteenth century. Results also suggest that the real wages of a significant share of the French male labor force were broadly on par with the levels prevailing in England before c.1750.