The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas: A Labour Market Approach.

Part of a long-run project to put together a systematic database of prices and wages for the American contingents, this paper takes a first look at standards of living in a series of North American and Latin American cities. From secondary sources we collected price data that - with diverse degrees...

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Main Authors: Allen, R, Murphy, T, Schneider, E
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2011