Standards of Living and Skill Premia in Eighteenth Century Denmark: What can we learn from a large microlevel wage database?
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Keywords
Denmark; microdata; prices; skill premia; wages;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2020-06-15 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-ORE-2020-06-15 (Operations Research)
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