We present new wage indices for skilled and unskilled construction workers in Italy. Our data
avoid multiple issues pestering earlier wages, making our new indices the first consistent …

This paper deals with the evolution of wages in the construction offices of Segovia, one of
the most important Castilian and Spanish manufacturing towns, between 1571 and 1807 …

El texto analiza la evolución a largo plazo de las retribuciones salariales en la villa de Alcoi,
la localidad líder en la producción de tejidos de lana en la España de finales del siglo XVIII …

Abstract In explaining the Industrial Revolution, the so-called high-wage hypothesis argues
that mechanisation served to replace expensive labour. Supporting evidence comes from …

We compare early-modern Roman construction wages to Judy Stephenson's downward-
adjusted construction wages for London. We find that Roman workers earned at least as …

We provide a first-ever long-run index of wages of stable rural workers in early-modern
Tuscany. These wages speak to two longstanding debates. The first concerns whether Italy's …