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Globalisation, inequality and Swedish catch up in the late nineteenth century. Williamson’s real wage comparisons under scrutiny
(2005)
The idea of rapid factor price convergence in the latter half of the nineteenth century stems from an article from 1995 by Jeffrey Williamson. That article presented real wage comparisons of unskilled urban workers for ...
Protectionism, agricultural prices and relative factor incomes: Sweden’s wage-rental ratio, 1877-1926
(2006)
Trends in wage-rental ratios have figured prominently in the recent literature
on factor price convergence and globalisation in the late nineteenth century. In that
literature Sweden has been described as a free trade ...