Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2014
Published In
Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg Working Papers
Abstract
This article reexamines wages in Egypt using new evidence not analyzed in my previous study of the late Mamluk economy (Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England, 2005). The results show that wages for unskilled labor fell precipitously from the 1300s to the 1400s and stayed at a very low level thereafter.
Rights
© Stuart Borsch. Reproduced with permission.
Recommended Citation
Borsch, Stuart. "Subsisting or Succumbing? Falling Wages in the Era of Plague." Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg Working Papers 13 (May 2014): 1-46. https://www.mamluk.uni-bonn.de/publications/working-paper.