Interregional inequalities, convergence and growth in France from 1840 to 1911
The “patente” was a business tax levied upon non-agricultural businesses in proportion to their presumed profitability. I use the amount of this tax to calculate non-agricultural value-added of French local districts (departments). I thus derive an approximation of gross domestic product per department for each decade from 1840 to 1910 using agricultural value-added calculated by Jean Claude Toutain (1992). I finally use this new data set to: (i) assess the evolution of inter-departmental inequalities and (ii) analyse GDP per capita convergence among departments. The results show that departments’ GDP per capita dispersion slowly declines after 1890 whereas wealth concentration increases in the Paris region.
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2014
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Authors: | BAZOT, Guillaume |
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Annales d'Economie et de Statistique. - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Admnistration Économique (ENSAE). - 2014, 113-114
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École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Admnistration Économique (ENSAE) |
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