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Inequality in pre-industrial Luxembourg (1766-1842): comparing the effects of the end of feudalism in rural and urban areas

  • Sonia Schifano
  • Tiago Ferreira Flores
  • Antoine Paccoud

This paper uses the land distribution derived from the Maria Theresa cadastre in Luxembourg from 1766 and a land registry of 1842 to compare wealth inequality in Luxembourg City and Dudelange, a rural municipality in the south of the country. The Gini coefficients for the two areas show a big difference in inequality. In 1766, Dudelange, with a Gini coefficient of 0.84, seems to be much more unequal than Luxembourg City that registers a Gini coefficient on land distribution of 0.53. The inequality analysis in 1842 shows a reduction in the inequality estimates mainly driven by the abolishment of the feudal taxes and a reduction in the inequality gap between Luxembourg City and Dudelange. When looking at social mobility, however, the results for the two places are quite similar.

  • Keywords:
  • social mobility,
  • inequality,
  • Luxembourg,
  • pre-industrial,
  • wealth,
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Sonia Schifano

Bocconi University, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8853-9067

Tiago Ferreira Flores

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg

Antoine Paccoud

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg

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Inequality in pre-industrial Luxembourg (1766-1842): comparing the effects of the end of feudalism in rural and urban areas

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Sonia Schifano, Tiago Ferreira Flores, Antoine Paccoud

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English

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10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.17

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2025

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La mobilità sociale nelle società preindustriali: tendenze, cause ed effetti (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Social mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries)

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Angela Orlandi

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612

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2025

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9

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Datini Studies in Economic History

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