Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247110 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 180
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
Granular microdata is of growing interest within economics and economic history. Thus, we document, present, and make available to the scholarly community a uniquely detailed database of 20,152 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 the proceed to illustrate two potential applications. First, we construct nominal wages and deflate them using Allen's constant consumer baskets. Real wages exhibit a considerable fall with the introduction of serfdom, and other changes consistent with known historical events. Second, we consider skill premia, finding no secular trends between skill categories, but considerable variation both within and between categories over time, suggesting that estimates based on simple averages should be interpreted with caution.
Subjects: 
Denmark
microdata
prices
skill premia
wages
JEL: 
J31
N33
N93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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