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Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800

Published:2020 Issue: Volume: Page:301-324
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Container-title:Disuguaglianza economica nelle società preindustriali: cause ed effetti / Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effect
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Author:

Pfister Ulrich¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Münster, DE

Abstract

The chapter reviews existing evidence regarding four aspects of economic inequality: relative factor rents, which relate to the factorial distribution of income and also underlie the so-called Williamson index (y/wus), which is correlated with the Gini index of household income; real inequality in terms of opposite movements of the price of consumer baskets consumed by different strata of society; the inequality of pay according to gender and skill, as well as between town and countryside; and wealth inequality, particularly with respect to the access to land. The main result is that, with given technology and agrarian institutions, there is a positive correlation between population and inequality.

Publisher

Firenze University Press

Link

https://www.fupress.com/doi/pdf/14220

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