We present new wage indices for skilled and unskilled construction workers in Italy. Our data avoid multiple issues pestering earlier wages, making our new indices the first consistent ones for early-modern Italy. Our improved wages, obtained from the St. Peter’s Church in Rome, consolidate the view that urban Italy began a prolonged downturn during the seventeenth century. They also offer sustenance to the idea that epidemics instigated the decline. Comparison with new construction wages for London shows that Roman workers outearned their early-modern English counterparts. This suggests that high wages alone were not enough to trigger industrialization.

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意大利和工资和物价的微小差异：新数据、新结果

我们为意大利的熟练和非熟练建筑工人提供了新的工资指数。我们的数据避免了困扰早期工资的多个问题，使我们的新指数成为早期现代意大利的第一个一致指数。我们从罗马圣彼得教堂获得的工资提高，巩固了意大利城市在 17 世纪开始长期衰退的观点。它们还为流行病导致衰退的观点提供了支持。与伦敦新建筑工资的比较表明，罗马工人的收入超过了他们早期现代的英国同行。这表明仅靠高工资不足以引发工业化。