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To the manor born: a new microlevel wage database for eighteenth-century Denmark
[Trends in real wages in Denmark since the late Middle Ages]

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  • Peter Sandholt Jensen
  • Cristina Victoria Radu
  • Paul Sharp

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We document and make available to the scholarly community a uniquely detailed database of 20,680 observations of wages for men, women, and children and 30,000 observations of prices from eighteenth-century rural Denmark. These microlevel data were originally collected by the Danish Price History Project but have not previously been released. To illustrate the usefulness of such data, we discuss possible applications.

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  • Peter Sandholt Jensen & Cristina Victoria Radu & Paul Sharp, 2022. "To the manor born: a new microlevel wage database for eighteenth-century Denmark [Trends in real wages in Denmark since the late Middle Ages]," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 26(2), pages 302-310.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ereveh:v:26:y:2022:i:2:p:302-310.
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