Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists
Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie, 1821-71
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3356576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Panza (0000-0003-1454-4669, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Jeffrey G Williamson (Harvard University and Wisconsin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 568-594 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ehr.12739 |
| OpenAlex | W2620103818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 37 |
Compared with its competitors, Australian GDP per worker grew exceptionally quickly from the 1820s to the 1870s, at a rate about twice that of the US and three times that of Britain. Did this rapid growth produce rising inequality, following a Kuznets curve? Using a novel dataset, this article offers new evidence that provides unambiguous support for the view that, in sharp contrast with the US experience and with globalization-inequality views concerning late nineteenth-century frontiers, Australia underwent a revolutionary levelling in incomes up to the 1870s. This assessment is based on trends in many proxies for inequality, as well as annual estimates of functional income shares in the form of land rents, convict payments, free unskilled labour incomes, free skilled labour and white collar incomes, British imperial transfers, and a capitalist residual
Convict · Demographic economics · Economic rent · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Inequality · Labour economics · Market economy · Real wages · Wage · Australian History and Society · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |