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The Development of Nominal Wage Rigidity in Nineteenth-Century America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Christopher Hanes
Christopher Hanes
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University of Pennsylvania
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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 454 - 456
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1992

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1 This dissertation was completed in 1990 at the Economics Department of Harvard University under the direction of Jeffrey G. Williamson, N. Gregory Mankiw, and J. Bradford DeLong.

2 The remaining differences between the data in the two sources cannot account for the change in cyclical flexibility described below.

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