Pfister, Ulrich; Fertig, Georg - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010
The paper presents the project of an aggregative reconstruction of the population of Ger-many from the sixteenth … nineteenth century. Par-ticularly the 1810s turn out as a period of major change in at least three dimensions: real wages … increased, life expectancies rose, and the positive check disappeared. Thus, Germany became a non-Malthusian economy well before …