Rapport sur les niveaux de vie des ouvriers dans différents pays

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Identifikator:: 1755732333

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-137085

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Rapport sur les niveaux de vie des ouvriers dans différents pays

Place of publication:: [Genf]

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Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 22, 22 Seiten; Taf.

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Title:: II. Les salaires réels

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> 10 — comparisons, after calculating the average real wages for the occupations considered, with reference to the type of food con- sumption in each of the groups of countries mentioned above, general average index numbers, corresponding to the average of the various types of food consumption, are also calcul- ated. In all these comparisons respecting the purchasing power of wages food consumption alone has been considered, in view of the difficulty of establishing comparable data concerning the other items of a wage-earner’s budget. Rent has, however, been taken into consideration to some extent, by using data supplied by the Statistical Services of various countries con- cerning the approximate proportion of income spent on rent 1. The statistical data in question, for the period from July 1924 to April 1926, are embodied in the table following, and are also shown in the diagram opposite. For both the table and the diagram it must be emphasised that the statistics are subject to the reserves formulated by the International Labour Office in the article “Comparison of the Level of Real Wages in Certain Capital Cities ’’2, and in the volume entitled Wage Changes in Various Countries, 1914 to 19255. ‘The figures relating to nominal wages are not always strictly comparable «+. Furthermore, they cover only a limited number of occupations in the capital cities of a certain number of countries, and not all occupations in each of the countries under review. It must also be remembered that the real wages in question are calculated solely on the basis of their purchasing power in foodstuffs, except in those cases where rent is indirectly allowed for; that only a limited number of commodities have been included owing to the difficulty of obtaining comparable data for some articles ®; and that the typical budgets adopted do not correspond exactly to the oe or an account of the method adopted see International Labour Review, October 1924, pp. 63 oid Sedq.: ‘ Comparison of the Levels of Real Wages in Certain Capital Cities‘. * See in particular p. 295. * In certain towns minimum rates onl i ; y are available, although the rates actually paid are sometimes siehtly higher; in other cases either actual rates or actual earnings are taken. The Hgux those fo Penhagen are based on the actual earnings of both piece workers and time workers va tes alin are based on average earnings. 1S reason that certain special features of ordinary consumption in southern Furopean countries have had to be ignored, the budgets used not making sufficient allowan egetable consumption in those countries,

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