International trade

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Identifikator:: 1758394757

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136209

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Taussig, Frank William http://d-nb.info/gnd/120199459

Title:: International trade

Place of publication:: New York, NY

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XXI, 425 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Problems of verification

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DIFFERENCES IN LABOR COSTS rN | ) { Je) COAL Tons oF CoaL PrODUCED PER YEAR United States Great Britain Prussia Belgium France Nova Scotia New South Wales [ndia PER UNDER- GROUND WORKER 319 371 381 244 00 696 762 ‘06 101 PER WORKER oF EVERY Kinp 681 300 [5 PER UNDER- GROUND WORKER 303 in 1914 PER WORKER oF EVERY Kinp po Ar 1918 PER UNDER- GROUND WORKER 1134 397 1N0 A). PER WORKER oF EVERY Kinp R00 R5 mR “2 0 rm The effectiveness of labor in the United States is greater than in any other country. It is more than double that of Great Britain or of pre-war Prussia, at least thrice that of Belgium, five times as great as that of British India. It is markedly greater than that of the nearest rivals, New South Wales and Nova Scotia. The figures may be put in another way: in terms of the daily output per person. Since the number of days of work in the year is not the same in the several countries, such figures do not show precisely the same relations as those of annual output. In the 1 The contrast would have been still greater had account been taken in the United States of bituminous coal alone ; and it is this which would afford the better basis of comparison with other countries. I append figures showing the annual product per year in the United States (all workers included), separately for the two kinds of coal over a series of vears: res AC 16 017 018 Bituminous Tons PER HEAD I 792 896 915 0492 ANTHRACITE TONS PER HEAD 505 504 548 646 672 CoaL or Bora KiNps Tons PER HEAD 673 724 818 860 [S90

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