Publication: Comparing income and wealth inequality in pre-industrial economies: the case of Castile (Spain) in the eighteenth-century
| dc.contributor.author | Nicolini, Esteban | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ramos Palencia, Fernando | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-04T09:46:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-04T09:46:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | La mayoría de las investigaciones sobre la desigualdad en las economías preindustriales se han centrado en la riqueza o en los ingresos, lo que ha generado resultados que no son fácilmente comparables. En este artículo utilizamos un conjunto de datos único de España de alrededor de 1750 que incluye información (entre otras cosas) sobre la riqueza y los ingresos de la misma muestra de hogares. Nuestros hallazgos proporcionan información metodológica que muestra que la posición de un hogar en la distribución de los ingresos está fuertemente correlacionada con su posición en la distribución de la riqueza, pero también se ve influida por otras características específicas del hogar, como el capital humano del cabeza de familia y el sector económico de su ocupación principal. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Most research on inequality in pre-industrial economies has focused on either wealth or income, generating not readily comparable results. In this paper, we use a unique data set of Spain circa 1750 including information on (among other things) wealth and income for the same sample of households. Our findings provide methodological insights showing that a household’s position in the income distribution is strongly correlated with its position in the wealth distribution but is also influenced by several other household specific characteristics like human capital of the head of the household and the economic sector of her/his main occupation. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Deapartamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nicolini, E. A., & Ramos-Palencia, F. (2021). Comparing income and wealth inequality in pre-industrial economies: the case of Castile (Spain) in the eighteenth century. European Review of Economic History, 25(4), 680-702. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/ereh/heaa026 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10433/25987 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | |
| dc.relation.projectID | HAR2016-77794-R | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.accessRights | open access | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Income | |
| dc.subject | Wealth | |
| dc.subject | Inequality | |
| dc.subject | Preindustrial Spain | |
| dc.title | Comparing income and wealth inequality in pre-industrial economies: the case of Castile (Spain) in the eighteenth-century | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dc.type.hasVersion | AM | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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