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Chapter Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800

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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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Datini Studies in Economic History

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Firenze University Press : Firenze University Press., 2020

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English

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9788855180535

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computer

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economic inequality

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Pfister, Ulrich

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81991

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suwardi

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10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.20

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