Urban Real Wages Around the Eastern Mediterranean in Comparative Perspective, 1100–2000

Şevket Pamuk

A chapter in Research in Economic History, 2006, pp 209-228 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This study examines the long-term trends in wages of skilled and unskilled construction workers in Constantinople-Istanbul, and to a lesser extent in other urban centers in the Near East and the Balkans from about 1100 until the present. It also compares long-term trends in eastern Mediterranean wages with those elsewhere in Europe. Two events had significant and long-lasting impacts on urban real wages around the eastern Mediterranean during the last millennium: the Black Death and modern economic growth. The available price and wage data also point to the existence of a gap in urban real wages between northwestern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean during the first half of the sixteenth century.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/S0363-3268(05)23006-9

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