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Real Wages and Labour Productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938 : A Unified Approach to the International Comparison of Living Standards
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206968
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Una de cal y otra arena : building comparable real wages in a global perspective
Allen, Robert C.; Murphy, Tommy E.; Schneider, Eric B. - In: Revista de historia económica 33 (2015) 1, pp. 61-75
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How prosperous where the Romans? : evidence from Diocletian's price edict (301 AD)
Allen, Robert C. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003564497
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Decline and stagnation in the Arab world : preliminary real wage evidence comparing Algeria, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia, 1847 - 1913
Caruana Galizia, Paul - In: Research in economic history : an annual compilation of … 31 (2015), pp. 1-40
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Why was the First Industrial Revolution English? : roman real wages and the Little Divergence within Europe Reconsidered
Rota, Mauro; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2019 - This version: 8 January 2019
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Comparing welfare regime changes : living standards and the unequal life chances of different birth cohorts
Chauvel, Louis - In: A young generation under pressure? : the financial …, (pp. 23-36). 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943014
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Comparing welfare regime changes : living standards and the unequal life chances of different birth cohorts
Chauvel, Louis (contributor) - 2008
The cohort sustainability of welfare regimes is of central importance to most long-term analyses of welfare state reforms (see for example: Esping-Andersen et al., 2002). A complement to these analyses shows that changes in intra versus inter cohort inequalities are major outcomes or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800426
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The Good Society : A Comparative Study of Denmark and Switzerland
Christoffersen, Henrik - 2014
Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Quality of Life in Two Different Good Societies: Denmark and Switzerland -- 2 … Denmark and Switzerland.- Part II: Two Models of Good Societies -- 5 Two Stylized Economic Models -- 6 Political Institutions …Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017153
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The good society : a comparative study of Denmark and Switzerland
Christofferson, Henrik; Beyeler, Michelle; … - 2014 - 1., 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010220610
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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards
Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266982