Income mobility and economic growth in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century.

BENELUX countries; NETHERLANDS

The article discusses a study on the patterns of short- and middle-term income mobility at household level in sixteenth-century's Hertogenbosch, a medium-sized town in the Southern Netherlands. Income mobility was found to be higher than originally thought and that a positive connection can be made between economic expansion and mobility. The town had reportedly high levels of geographical mobility. It is noted that the study has implications for the economic and social history of the Low Countries in the early modern period.