| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP9903
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| DP9903 The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850 |
| Jane Humphries; Jacob Weisdorf
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| 发表日期 | 2014-03-23
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women?s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed widening gap between women and men?s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent debates: first whether or not ?the golden age of the English peasantry? included women; and second whether or not industrialization provided women with greater opportunities. Our contributions to both debates have implications for analyses of growth and trends in wellbeing. If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it contributed to the formation of the European Marriage Pattern, a demographic regime which positioned England on a path to modern economic growth. If the industrial revolution provided women with improved economic options, their gains should be included in any overall assessment of trends in the standard of living. |
| 主题 | Economic History
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| 关键词 | Black death
England
Gender segregation
Gender wage gap
Industrial revolution
Wages
Women
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9903
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538737
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推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Jane Humphries,Jacob Weisdorf. DP9903 The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850. 2014.
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