Calendrier du 09 octobre 2019
Economic History Seminar
Du 09/10/2019 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1.13, Campus Jourdan 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
RIDOLFI Leonardo (University of Siena)
Six Centuries of Real Wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250–1860
Evidence of an early modern “Little divergence” in real wages between northwestern Europe and the rest of the continent is mostly based on the comparative study of a sample of leading European cities. Focusing on France and England this study reassesses the debate from a country-level perspective. The findings challenge the notion of an early modern “Little divergence” showing no clear-cut trend of divergence until the second half of the eighteenth century. Results also suggest that the real wages of a significant share of the French male labor force were broadly on par with the levels prevailing in England before c.1750.