A Microlevel Wage Dataset for Eighteenth Century Denmark

Peter Jensen, Cristina Victoria Radu and Paul Sharp
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Cristina Victoria Radu: University of Southern Denmark

No 159, Working Papers from European Historical Economics Society (EHES)

Abstract: Granular microdata is of growing interest within economics and economic history. We present a uniquely detailed database of 21,557 observations of wages and 30,000 observations of prices in rural Denmark for men, women and children, and for both skilled and unskilled workers over the eighteenth century. We construct nominal wages and deflate them using Allen’s constant consumer baskets. The real wage series exhibits a considerable fall with the introduction of serfdom, and other changes consistent with known historical events. We present some evidence on skill premiums and gender wage gaps and offer suggestions for future work exploiting this data.

Keywords: Denmark; microdata; prices; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 N33 N93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2019-06
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