The living standards of the labouring classes in Sweden, 1750–1900: Evidence from rural probate inventories
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Keywords
living standards; wealth; poverty; inequality; probate inventories; Sweden; rural workers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2020-05-18 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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