I've read that the Black Death acted as a trigger for widespread change in England, due to the drastic drop in population which led to cheaper grain and a drastic increase in wages for workers. I believe the "Statute of Labourers" from 1351 was also partly brought about by the plague's aftermath.
I was wondering if the Black Death acted as an impetus for similar changes elsewhere in Europe?
Your question reminds me very much of a rather meaty series by Jonathan Sumption; The Hundred Years War Trilogy. Right at the beginning of Book II: Trial by Fire, he goes into detail about the debilitating effect the Black Death had on France which he argues was greater than that in England (not in terms of mortality but in ability for government to collect revenue). I'll post some sample text below:
By far the most significant consequence of the epidemic was its impact on the financial resources of the French Crown. he high mortality in the years 1347-50 caused serious financial difficulty for those in France who lived on agricultural rents. As demand for land and food fell and as labour became scarce and expensive, landowners found their incomes severely squeezed. This directly affected the Crown (as a landowner) but also indirectly as it reduced the taxable capacity of the nobility and the Church who were the main financiers of the war effort [As well as towns and villages]...In both countries [France and England] the plague heightened social tensions, as prices rose and the Church and the nobility struggled to hold down wages and the government to collect taxes. France paid the price of these tensions during the violent urban and rural revolutions of the 1350s. But in England the exceptionally close solidarity between the government and the nobility and gentry of the provinces enabled them to exercise a higher degree of social control and to defer the reckoning for more than two decades (Peasant's Revolt).
Sumption, J. (1999) Trial by Fire: Hundred Years War II London, Faber & Faber
Upheavals such as the Jacquerie Rebellion, Northern France, in 1358 could arguably be traced back to social pressure and economic change as a result of The Black Death (without ignoring the ongoing conflict). There were similar rebellions in Italy as well however I haven't really read too much about that (or further East, however I think the lesser population density of Eastern Europe minimized the intensity of the plague). The Plague seems to have been a considerable factor in the death of feudalism in Western Europe and landowners were less able to demand indenture in an environment where labour was in demand.