Wages, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Growth in Japan, 1727-1894

Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Saito, Osamu ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Farm output; GDP per capita; Inequality; Japan; Labour market; Pre modern growth; Real wages; Smithian growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349156238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199280681.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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