How (much) were British workers paid ? Evidence beyond wage rates
Since Phelps Brown Hopkins published ‘Seven centuries’ in the mid 1950s economic historians and cliometricians have used ‘day wages’ – day rates for masons, carpenters and bricklayers taken from...
View ArticleWhat happened to immigrant earnings during the Great Depression?
by Chris Minns, Economic History Department, LSE The Great Depression devastated North American labour markets for a decade, with about a quarter of the work force unemployed at the peak of the...
View ArticleFrom VOX – British wellbeing 1780-1850: Measuring the impact of...
by Daniel Gallardo Albarrán, appeared on 22nd May 2016 Industrialisation has been the key to modern economic growth and rapidly rising incomes, but some question whether it is always a blessing when...
View ArticleConstructing Equality? Women’s wages, physical labor, and demand factors in...
by Kathryn E. Gary, PhD candidate, Lund University Women were important workers in the past, but they are still under-studied and their contributions largely absent from big-picture discussions of...
View ArticleFrom The NEP-HIS Blog: Fifty Years of Growth in American Consumption, Income,...
Fifty Years of Growth in American Consumption, Income, and Wages By Bruce Sacerdote (Darmouth) Abstract: Despite the large increase in U.S. income inequality, consumption for families at the 25th and...
View ArticleOn archives, macroeconomics and labour markets
Everything (well,… most things) you know about wages 1650 -1800 is wrong. That’s a great opportunity for historians by Judy Stephenson (University of Oxford) My forthcoming paper in the Economic...
View ArticlePieces of Eight: Sailors, Wages, and Trade
by Richard Blakemore (University of Reading) – research conducted at the University of Exeter thanks to a ERC project. In April 1642, Michael Johnson sailed from London aboard the Fame. The voyage...
View ArticleWages in the Middle Ages
by Jordan Claridge (London School of Economics) Historical research on labour and wages has been an object of considerable attention for both industrial and post-industrial societies. Even in the...
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Poverty or Prosperity in Northern India? New Evidence on Real Wages, 1590s-1870s
by Pim de Zwart (Wageningen University) and Jan Lucassen (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) The full article from this blog was published on The Economic History Review and it is...
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Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: Evidence from Stable...
by Mauro Rota (Sapienza University of Rome) and Jacob Weisdorf (Sapienza University of Rome) The full article from this post was now published on The Economic History Review and it is available on...
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