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Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861

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Authors: David Chilosi, Carlo Ciccarelli
Published online: March 23, 2022DOI: 10.1111/ehr.13159

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During the Risorgimento (1800–61), southern Italy was less industrial than central-northern Italy and initially agricultural provinces in the north saw rapid structural transformation. During the Renaissance (1400–1600), structural transformation in the south led to a near halving of the initial difference in agricultural employment share between the centre-north and the south, but convergence came to a halt with the ‘seventeenth-century crisis’. These trends suggest that regional inequality was evolving rather than persistent.

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