Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174564
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2017/14
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
This paper presents new series of real wages for male farmers and construction workers in France from 1250 to 1860. Between the first half of the thirteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century real wages displayed no substantial trend improvement. Even in the post-Black Death period, after a sharp temporary rise in real wages, there are few traces of a French "golden age" of labour especially during the worst phases of the Hundred Years War. In addition, consistently with the Malthusian interpretation, we find evidence of a long lasting inverse relationship between real wages and population.
Subjects: 
Real wages
Living standards
France
JEL: 
I30
J3
N33
O10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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