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Six centuries of real wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250-1860 |
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Leonardo Ridolfi |
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Real wages, Living standards, France
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I30, J3, N33, O10
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Abstract | |||||||||||||||||
This article presents a new series of real wages
for male agricultural laborers and construction workers in
France from 1250 to 1860. I show that the overall picture
is more complex than what a city-level early modern
divergence thesis between northwestern Europe and the rest
of the continent would suggest. Cross-national comparisons
of real wages point to the coexistence of both divergence
and convergence phases until the eighteenth century. One
important implication is 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.
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