Chapter Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800
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 t...
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| Format: | Electronisk Book Chapter |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Florence
Firenze University Press
2020
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| Serier: | Datini Studies in Economic History
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 electronic resource (24 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-88-5518-053-5.20 9788855180535 |
| Adgang: | Open Access |