The income distributional consequences of agrarian tariffs in Sweden on the eve of World War I

Jan Bohlin ()
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Jan Bohlin: Department of Economic History, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 720, SE 40530 Göteborg, Sweden

No 6, Göteborg Papers in Economic History from University of Gothenburg, Unit for Economic History

Abstract: After 1870 Swedish agriculture was transformed in the direction of more animal husbandry. Small farmers in particular specialized in animal produce. Yet, agricultural protectionism primarily served the interest of large landowners specializing in bread-grain production. The paper explores the impact of agrarian tariffs on the factor rewards of landowners, capitalists and workers. Landowners predictably benefited from agrarian tariffs, the more so if they specialized in bread-grain, as did rural workers. With an integrated ruralurban labour market real incomes of urban workers would have come under pressure if agrarian tariffs had been dismantled while capitalists would have been little affected.

Keywords: Economic History; Protectionism; Trade Policy; Income Distribution; Computable General Equilibrium Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 D33 F13 N23 N33 N43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2006-12-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-his and nep-int
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