Unreal Wages? A New Empirical Foundation for the Study of Living Standards and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1860
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- Humphries, Jane & Weisdorf, Jacob, 2016. "Unreal Wages? A New Empirical Foundation for the Study of Living Standards and Economic Growth in England, 1260‐1860," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 310, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
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Keywords
England; industrial revolution; industrious revolution; labour input; living standards; wages; Malthusian model.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
- J8 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EVO-2018-07-09 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2018-07-09 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2018-07-09 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-KNM-2018-07-09 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
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