Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 1732429189

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-107088

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kalveram, Wilhelm http://d-nb.info/gnd/116035447

Title:: Bankbuchhaltung

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Gloeckner

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VIII, 196 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: D. Schwierige Fälle der Bankbuchhaltung

Collection:: Economics Books

To the President of the Board of Trade. Sir, The volume which I have the honour to submit herewith embodies the results of the second part of the enquiry now being conducted by the Board of Trade, in accordance with your directions, with regard to the cost of living and the well-being of the working classes in industrial towns in some of the principal commercial countries. The first volume, relating to towns in the United Kingdom, has already been published (Cd. 3864). The present Report refers to the German Empire, in which 33 representative towns have been investigated containing an aggregate population of some nine millions. As in the case of the United Kingdom, the enquiry related to rents and housing, prices of commodities and cost of living of the working classes, together with the rates of wages and hours of labour prevailing in certain trades. The particulars obtained, together with a good deal of supplementary information on matters relating to local industrial conditions, are given in detail under the various towns, and the most important results of the enquiry are summarised in the preliminary Memorandum, which also contains a section comparing these results so far as possible with the corresponding information for English towns contained in the recently published Report. Any precise statistical comparison of cost of living in Germany and England is by no means a simple matter. Even when all the difficulties of maintaining the same standard of investigation throughout have been success fully overcome, there remains a difficulty inherent in the nature of things arising from the different habits and modes of living in the two countries. The point is well illustrated by the interesting result obtained from the present investigation, that an English workman migrating to Germany, and main taining, so far as possible, his own standard of living, would find the cost of rent, food, and fuel raised by about one-fifth, while the German workman who migrated to England, but retained his own habits of living, would find his expenditure on the same items reduced by less than one half that amount. While attention is called in the report to this essential ambiguity in inter national comparisons, the subject is naturally treated for the most part in the present Report from the point of view of the English workman. The comparison of the rates of wages has been confined to certain standard trades, as in the United Kindom Report, for the reasons stated in full in that volume. The general result of the comparison is to show that in German towns, the workmen engaged in these trades receive about 1 7 per cent, less in money wages in return for a week’s work of about 10 per cent, longer duration than the corresponding English workmen. In other words, their hourly rate of money remuneration is about three-quarters of the corresponding English rate, while the cost of food, rent, and fuel (measured by the English standard) is about one-fifth higher. 2000 Wt 8738 6/08 D & 8 1 29088

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