Real wages and standards of living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Bogazici University; University of Pennsylvania; Bogazici University; Bogazici University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 293-321
• 关键词: product; prices; Europe

摘要

Utilizing a large volume of archival documents, this study establishes for the first time the long-term trends in real wages of skilled and unskilled construction workers in Istanbul and other Ottoman cities in southeastern Europe and the Middle East, from the second half of the fifteenth century until World War I. A detailed consumer price index and nominal wage indices are constructed for the city of Istanbul for this purpose. These price and wage series are then inserted into a larger framework of price and wage trends in European cities during the same period.