A Workers’ Revolution in Sweden? Exploring Economic Growth and Distributional Change with Detailed Data on Construction Workers’ Wages, 1831–1900
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Keywords
wages; inequality; distribution; economic development; growth; living standards; Kuznets-curve; Lewis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- N00 - Economic History - - General - - - 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
- O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2018-10-22 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2018-10-22 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LMA-2018-10-22 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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