The great divergence in European wages and prices

By R. Allen. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, Japan, and Europe, 1738-1925 (2007, neutral): “The first step was to specify a diet for Europe, which summarizes the spending assumptions for northern Europe (Allen 2001) (Table 3).”
Was There an ‘Industrious Revolution’ Before the Industrial Revolution? An Empirical Exercise for England, c. 1300-1830 (2011, neutral): “2 For a discussion of the design of the basket, see Allen (2001) .”
The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209–2004 (2005, neutral): “Feinstein (1998) and Allen (2001) are much more pessimistic.”
Rebasing 'Maddison' : new income comparisons and the shape of long-run economic development (2018, methodology): “Allen (2000) assumed an income elasticity of demand of 0.5; Malanima (2010) selected 0.4 and Alvaraz Nogal and Leandro Prados de la Escosura (2013) chose 0.3. For our estimates we took the middle range value of β = 0.4. We set the parameter p equal to 2, which is an assumption that seems a reasonabl”
The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913 (2011, background): “…the fifteenth century, or stagnates, as in the seventeenth, whereas they decline in periods 14 On the difference between my series of Italian real wages in the building industry and those by Allen (2001) and the similarity (or better identity) with those by A’Hearn (2003) see www.paolomalanima.it.”
Engels' pause: Technical change, capital accumulation, and inequality in the british industrial revolution (2009, background): “Finally, while real wages were stagnant in industrializing Britain, they stagnated at a high level when seen internationally: real wages in 18th century Britain and the Low Countries were higher than anywhere else in Eurasia (Allen, 2001).”