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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U Average usual Hours of Labour per week in England and Wales and in Germany. Trade. Average usual Hours of Labour per week in England and Wales. Germany. Ratio of average Hours of Labour in Germany to those in England taken as 100. Building Trades :— Bricklayers and Masons Carpenters Plumbers ... Painters Labourers ... Engineering Trades Fitters Turners Smiths Patternmakers Labourers ... Printing Trade Compositors All the above trades (average) 52i 53 53% 53i 52& 53 53 53 53 53 52& 59 59 58 59 59 59& 59; 59¡ 59% 59* 54 112 111 108 110 112 112 112 112 112 112 103 111 It will be seen that, except in the case of the printing trade, which is a highly organised trade in Germany, and for which the working hours have been fixed by agreement at the relatively low level of 54 per week, the hours of labour in Germany are from 8 to 12 per cent, higher in Germany than in England. On the average of the above trades, German hours exceed English by rather more than 10 per cent. Hourly rates.—If, however, for the trades considered, German weekly wages are to English weekly wages approximately as 83 to 100, while hours of labour during the week are as 111 to 100, the hourly earnings of the German workman must be to those of the Englishman, roughly, as 75 to 100. That is to say, for the building and engineering trades in the towns investigated, the average hourly earnings of the workman in Germany are only about three-quarters of those of the English workmen doing the same work. IV.—Summary of Conclusions. Summarising the preceding sections, it has been found that, as regards rents :— Net rents of working-class dwellings in Germany are to gross rents (including rates) of working-class dwellings in England as ... ... .. ... ... ... 101 to 100 Net rents of working-class dwellings in Germany are to net rents of working-class dwellings in England (excluding that portion of English rents representing local taxation) as ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 123 to 100 As regards prices :— On the basis of the ordinary English standard of consumption the expenditure of the workman on food and fuel in Germany, is to his expenditure in England as 118 to 100 If the expenditure on rent be combined with that on food and fuel, the expenditure on the latter items being taken, with sufficient accuracy for present purposes, at four times the former, the results are ;— The expenditure on food, fuel, and rent of the workman in Germany, on the same basis as above, would be to that of the same workman in England, on the same items but including local taxation, as ... ... ... ... 115 to 100 9 2 29088

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