I don't know if this helps, but I have a price index for wage workers
1827-1842. A friend of mine is developing one for British wage workers
throughout the nineteenth century.
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
his is all cribbed from
Dean Baker of EPI who has done some of the groundwork.
Dave
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Does anyone know of any work on different price indexes for different
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Does anyone know of any work on different price indexes for different
income classes in the U.S
Does anyone know of any work on different price indexes for different
income classes in the U.S. A book I'm reading, Williamson Lindert's
American Inequality: A Macroeconomic History, says that such price indexes
tended to magnify changes in nominal income inequality, from the mid-19th
century
