Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences
收集了过去二十年历史实际工资文献中的大量价格和工资数据，采用一致方法分析了全球86个市场（约1200-1965年），通过线性规划核算气候差异对生活成本的影响，揭示了“小分流”、“大分流”和“殖民分流”的不同水平和趋势。
We collected the vast majority of price and wage data stemming out of the vibrant historical real wage literature of the last two decades. We applied a consistent methodology across the 86 included markets from around the world, with observations spanning from ca. 1200 to 1965. For computing the cost of living, our methodology accounts for the differences in temperatures across those markets. This adjustment impies higher costs for colder countries, with important ramifications. This approach reveals different levels and trends in relation to the "Little", "Great" and "Colonial" Divergences. Unfortunately, the coverage is still considerably skewed towards European countries. Further work in the field of global real wages can fill this gap, and improve current estimates, for example by increasing the products covered and reducing the need for imputations that are used widely in the literature.