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Bedevilling the ongoing debate about changes in real-incomes in late-medieval western Europe, especially during the so-called ‘Golden Age of the Labourer’, is the very troubling issue of ‘wage-stickiness’. The standard and long-traditional explanation for this supposed ‘Golden Age’...
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This paper analyses the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era when the ‘draperies’ or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly dependent upon northern markets and the German Hanseatic...
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monetary forces in producing deflation in the second and final quarters of the fourteenth century, but severe inflation in … deflations and intervening inflation – were the most powerful determinant of the level of real wages (i.e., in terms of the …’ by the post-Plague inflation, so that real wages fell. Conversely, the rise of real wages in the second quarter of the …
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either England or Flanders, but was instead followed by a quarter century of falling real wages, because rampant inflation … craftsmen in Bruges; but by the 1480s, when inflation was far more serious in Flanders than in England, that gap had narrowed to …
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about 50% of the Flemish; but by the 1480s, they had narrowed that gap (with much less inflation) to about 80%. That gap was …
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This paper presents an analysis of real wages, inflation and labour productivity interrelationships using cointegration … effect of inflation on manufacturing sector productivity have limited statistical significance. Granger causality test … results suggest that real wages and inflation both Granger-cause productivity in the long run. …
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A game-theoretical model of the investment value formation of the instruments of corporate control (shares or stakes in equity) is formulated and analyzed. It is shown that this value depends significantly on the allocation of equity among the owners, and the on the possibilities of the...
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This paper investigates the time-varying correlation between the EU12-wide business cycle and the initial EU12 member-countries based on Scalar-BEKK and multivariate Riskmetrics model frameworks for the period 1980-2012. The paper provides evidence that changes in the business cycle...
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When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
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