Inequality and the working class in Scandinavia 1800 to 1910 - Workers' share of growing income
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Keywords
Wages; living standards; inequality; working class; Denmark; Norway; Sweden;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2016-02-17 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-HME-2016-02-17 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-MAC-2016-02-17 (Macroeconomics)
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