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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
Volume 80, Issue 4, Pages 931-960Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050720000467
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- Carlsberg Foundation [CF18-0495]
- Sapienza University [000041_17_ricateneo17_rota_ric.ateneo]
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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 ones for early-modern Italy. Our improved wages, obtained from the St. Peter's Church in Rome, consolidate the view that urban Italy began a prolonged downturn during the seventeenth century. They also offer sustenance to the idea that epidemics instigated the decline. Comparison with new construction wages for London shows that Roman workers outearned their early-modern English counterparts. This suggests that high wages alone were not enough to trigger industrialization.
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