Institutions, wages, and inequality: The case of Europe and its periphery (1500-1899)

• المؤلف الرئيسي: CHOR, Davin
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• الموضوعات: European cities; Institutions; Wage inequality; Economics; Growth and Development; International Economics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/64; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1063/viewcontent/institutionswages_inequality.pdf

This paper explores the long-run relationship between institutions and wage outcomes in Europe and its periphery. I find that cities that exercised stronger institutional protection of private property experienced: (i) higher levels of both skilled and unskilled real wages, as well as (ii) lower lev...