Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247125 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 195
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper provides the first estimates of the number of days worked per year in the construction sector in Madrid between 1740 and 1810. Using a database of 389,000 observations with over 2.15 million paid days, we demonstrate how the length of the working year in the second half of eighteenth century was very close to the modern standard of 300 days, and that, by the end of the century, building workers—both skilled and unskilled— actually worked around 280 days, a far higher number than suggested by the current estimates for Spain or the figures proposed recently for northern Europe.
Subjects: 
Spain
pre-industrial labour market
18th century
working year
construction history
JEL: 
J3
J49
N33
N63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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