Theoretische Sozialökonomie

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Identifikator:: 1741838835

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116716

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cassel, Gustav http://d-nb.info/gnd/118519492

Title:: Theoretische Sozialökonomie

Edition:: 4., verb. und wesentl. erw. Aufl.

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Deichert

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XIII, 649 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweites Buch. Die Preisbildung der Produktionsfaktoren

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32 INTERNATIONAL TRADE the same industrial stratification thruout, the fact of stratification is of no consequence; the several layers are related to each other as if they were a pair of homogeneous structures Such figures could be easily varied further, and the same prin- ciples further illustrated. We may suppose the relation between the rates of pay in different groups not to be the same in the two countries. That is, suppose non competing groups in each coun- try, but with differences between the groups not the same in both. If the lower paid laborers in the United States (the unskilled, say) receive not only lower wages than those belonging to the higher groups, but wages farther down in the United States scale than is the case with corresponding sorts of laborers in Germany, then the commodities for whose production they are combined with the others will be affected in price exactly as if that sort of labor were especially effective in the United States. These commodities will be relatively cheap and will tend to be exported. Again, if it happens not only that a given group of laborers gets an unusual rate of pay, but also that a large proportion of this sort of labor is needed for producing a given commodity, the result will be ac- centuated. Assume, for example, that skilled workers of a given kind are to be had in Germany at a premium or differential over other workers which is not so high as the premium for the same skilled workers in the United States; assume further that the technical processes of an industry require a proportion of such workers larger than is needed in other industries; then the prod- ucts of that industry will be particularly low in price in Germany, even tho not made with labor having any particular (comparative) effectiveness. They will tend to be exported; they may be exported even tho the labor lack something in comparative effect- 1veness. There is more to be said, however. What causes the differences of wages within a country? What determines the relative positions of the non-competing groups? The underlying forces may be solely of domestic origin and effect; then they are to be conceived as operating on international trade as separate and independent

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