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Protectionism, agricultural prices and relative factor incomes: Sweden’s wage-rental ratio, 1877-1926

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  • Bohlin, Jan

    () (Department of Economic History, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University)

  • Larsson, Svante

    () (Department of Economic History, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University)

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    Trends in wage-rental ratios have figured prominently in the recent literature on factor price convergence and globalisation in the late nineteenth century. In that literature Sweden has been described as a free trade country whose wage-rental ratio exhibited a distinguished upward trend before World War I. This article presents a new series of land prices which indicates an increase in land rentals and an evolution of the wage-rental ratio more in line with other European protectionist countries. We explore the determinants of the Swedish wage-rental ratio and assess the relative importance of protectionism and the change in the product mix from arable to animal products in Swedish agriculture.

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    Paper provided by University of Gothenburg, Department of Economic History in its series Göteborg Papers in Economic History with number 7.

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    Length: 36 pages
    Date of creation: 01 Dec 2006
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    Handle: RePEc:hhs:gunhis:0007

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    Keywords: Economic History; Land prices; wages; wage-rental ratio; protectionism; Sweden;

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