Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis
In this paper, we set out to explore trends in mobility levels in six smaller towns in the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. We use pairs of tax lists to divide the population into quintiles and draw up mobility tables. We estimate mobility as the proportion of peopl...
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| description | In this paper, we set out to explore trends in mobility levels in six smaller towns in the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. We use pairs of tax lists to divide the population into quintiles and draw up mobility tables. We estimate mobility as the proportion of people moving into a different quintile. We did not find a long-term trend in mobility levels. Mobility levels did fluctuate in the towns we investigate, but we did not find any relation to trends in or levels of population or inequality. Our results suggest that preindustrial urban societies remained fairly rigid. Many people remained either in the top or bottom half of the distribution. It seems particularly people at the top managed to stay at the top. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1632902025-08-02T05:00:44Z Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis Ronsijn, Wouter Ryckbosch, Wouter Mobility Inequality Low Countries Towns In this paper, we set out to explore trends in mobility levels in six smaller towns in the Low Countries during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. We use pairs of tax lists to divide the population into quintiles and draw up mobility tables. We estimate mobility as the proportion of people moving into a different quintile. We did not find a long-term trend in mobility levels. Mobility levels did fluctuate in the towns we investigate, but we did not find any relation to trends in or levels of population or inequality. Our results suggest that preindustrial urban societies remained fairly rigid. Many people remained either in the top or bottom half of the distribution. It seems particularly people at the top managed to stay at the top. 2025-08-02T05:00:43Z 2025-08-02T05:00:43Z 2025-08-01T15:44:46Z 2025 chapter ONIX_20250801T173835_9791221506679_62 2975-1195 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104612 9791221506679 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163290 eng Datini Studies in Economic History open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104612/1/44506.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.16 10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.16 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221506679 27 Florence open access |
| spellingShingle | Mobility Inequality Low Countries Towns Ronsijn, Wouter Ryckbosch, Wouter Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis |
| title | Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis |
| title_full | Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis |
| title_fullStr | Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis |
| title_short | Chapter Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis |
| title_sort | chapter income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern low countries an exploratory analysis |
| topic | Mobility Inequality Low Countries Towns |
| topic_facet | Mobility Inequality Low Countries Towns |
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