secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index …This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …

between wages and prices. A consideration that could loom large is the shortfall in wage gains relative to their pre …