Call for papers: The focus of the 2019 seminar is the level, structure, evolution of income and wealth and their distribution among social classes, families, individuals and among nations. Its aim is to investigate the structure of income and wealth in past and present societies and the inequalities both within and between countries. Attention is be devoted to the forms of income (wages, interests, profits, rents) and wealth (both real and financial assets), their changes in time and the influence of the institutions on their distribution.

List of participants

1. Rebeca Riella (Montevideo), Wealth distribution in Hispanic America during colonial times: new evidence from Montevideo since 1760 to 1815
2. Federico Gálvez Gambero (Málaga), Did public debt shape personal and regional inequality in late medieval Castile?
3. Felix Schaff (London), When ‘war made the state', what happened to economic inequality? Military conflicts and the beginning of the inequality rise in premodern Germany (c. 1400 – 1648)
4. Sascha Klocke (Lund), Skill or Race? Inequality in the Wage Labour Sector in British Tanganyika
5. Alexander Shipilov (Moscow), The role of ethnic disparities in the escalation towards the Liberian (1989-2003) and Ivorian (2002-2011) civil wars
6. Gabriel Brea-Martínez (Bellaterra-Barcelona), Sociodemographic mechanisms of socioeconomic inequality. A case study in the Barcelona area (18th-19th centuries)
7. Cristina Victoria Radu (Odense), The impact of border changes and protectionism on real wages in early modern Scania
8. Ana Avino de Pablo (Ghent), Economic growth and Inequality in pre-industrial England: the case of Kingston Lacy manor (Dorset)
9. Giacomo Gabbuti (Oxford), Sources and methods for the history of Intergenerational mobility in Italy
10. Esther Beeckaert (Ghent) Private and common land access compared. The distribution of land rights and wealth inequality in the Belgian Ardennes in the second half of the eighteenth century
11. Marcello Valente (Torino), Economic inequality between self-employed and wage workers in classical Athens
12. Benjamin Schneider (Oxford), Road construction wages and labor market integration in England, 1719–1800
13. Albert Reixach Sala (Girona), Economic inequality, political power and social mobility in Catalonia in the long run (1350-1700): the case of the city of Girona
14. Michail Moatsos (Utrecht), Global income inequality: concepts, estimates and a first ballpark

Experts

• Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
• Guido Alfani (Università Bocconi Milano)
• Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
• Wouter Ryckbosch (Brussels University)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden University)