Almanach d'adresses de la Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et de Métier `a Zagreb

Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 1831750147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221175

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Title:: Almanach d'adresses de la Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et de Métier `a Zagreb

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Year of publication:: 1930

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Industrija. Industrie - Industrie - Industry

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Vil towns, with the result that the differences between the cost of living (so far as it relates to expenditure on rent, food, and fuel) in one or another of the German towns investigated are not very much larger than those which exist between the towns of the United Kingdom. The general level of prices is, however, distinctly higher in Germany than in the United Kingdom, and in this connexion an important instance of the effects of differences in national habits may be noticed. The English workman going to Germany and maintaining his accustomed standard of living would find his expenditure on food and fuel substantially increased ; but in spite of the generally higher level of prices in Germany the German workman coming to England, and maintaining his own standard, would not find his expenditure reduced in a corresponding proportion. This is due mainly to the fact that the German workman takes much more than the English workman of certain food commodities, chiefly potatoes and milk, which are cheaper in German than in English towns. Finally, whilst nominal rents are as high in Germany as in England—and in fact higher, since they do not include local taxation, which the German workman must pay separately—and whilst the general level of food prices in the German towns is also higher than in England, wages in those trades for which a comparison has been made are substantially lower, even when longer hours are worked. I have, &c., ARTHUR WILSON FON.

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