Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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CwmMW Æmfg and Pr/cgg m Dggc6/%&^ G/'^r. Town. Stuttgart Mannheim Berlin Barmen Munich Düsseldorf Mülhausen Nuremberg Remscheid Bremen Aschaffenburg Index No. Town. 106 100 100 99 98 97 97 96 95 94 94 Dresden Königsberg Aachen Elberfeld Solingen Chemnitz Planen Essen Leipzig Hamburg-Altona Crefeld Index No. Town. 93 93 93 93 93 92 92 92 91 91 90 Dortmund Stettin Brunswick Bochum Dantzig Breslau Magdeburg Zwickau Stassfurt Oschersleben Königshütte. Index No. 90 88 88 88 87 87 86 86 85 84 78 Stuttgart heads the list, under the combined influence of high rents and high prices, whilst the position of Mannheim is due mainly to high prices, and that of Berlin to high rents. The place of Königshütte at the bottom of the list is due to the very low level of prices ruling there, whilst for the three towns immediately above it the determining factor is low rents. The extreme range for the 33 towns is from 106 to 78—a difference of 28 points, but if we exclude Stuttgart and Königshütte the extreme difference is only 16 points, and 20 of the towns, or nearly two-thirds, lie within the narrow range of 96 to 88. Thus there does not appear to be a very marked difference between the towns in respect of that part of the cost of living which is represented by the expenditure on food, fuel, and housing. In the following Table the combined rents and prices index numbers are given for the geographical groups of towns. Combined Bents and Prices Index Numbers for Geographical Groups. Geographical Group. Number of Towns. Mean Index Numbers. Rent. Prices. Rent and Prices Combined. Berlin Central Germany Rhineland Westphalia :— (a) Textile Towns lb) Hardware Towns South Germany Saxony Silesia Baltic Ports North Sea Ports 100 35 55 64 65 47 52 52 59 100 99 104 100 107 102 91 99 101 100 86 94 93 99 91 83 89 93 Thus when rents and prices are combined, South Germany, with a relatively high level of both prices and rents, comes next after Berlin, and very close to it.° The Silesian group of towns is lowest, owing to medium rents and low prices ; the low level of Central Germany is due solely to the influence of low rents. (iv.) Wages and Hours of Labour. From a large number of returns made for the purposes of this investigation by German employers, and from other sources, much information was obtained as to wa<?es and hours of labour in many branches of industry, and this is set out in the separate town reports, and to some extent also in a subsequent section of this General Report (pp.xxxv,xxxvi), and in Appendix L, pp. 492-495. Ina number of cases it was possible to obtain “ standard rates,” i.e., rates fixed for a definite period by agreement between employers and employed. Such agreements exist for the printing trade throughout Germany—in this case there is a minimum rate, with an addition which varies from town to town according to an estimate of the local cost of living ; for brewing there are local or special agreements (i.e., agreements made for the whole district or between individual firms and their employees) in all the towns in which that industry is carried on to any considerable extent ; and there are local agreements for some branches of the building trade in nearly all the towns investigated. In all these cases the agreements are as to time rates. There are numerous and complicated piecework

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