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

Research in Economic History

ISBN: 978-0-76231-262-7, eISBN: 978-1-84950-379-2

Publication date: 5 January 2006

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.

Citation

Pamuk, Ş. (2006), "Urban Real Wages Around the Eastern Mediterranean in Comparative Perspective, 1100–2000", Field, A.J., Clark, G. and Sundstrom, W.A. (Ed.) Research in Economic History (Research in Economic History, Vol. 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 209-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0363-3268(05)23006-9

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