This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre-industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in mediev...

The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-t…

(Forthcoming Article) - We show that existing ‘production approaches’ to markdown estimation do not separately identify factor price markdowns from factor-augmenting productivity levels. We propose a ...

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This paper explores the prevalence of in-kind wages in medieval labour markets and the underlying reasons for their use. Using a new dataset of agricu…