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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The expenditure on food, fuel, and rent of the workman in Germany would be to that of the same workman in England on the same items, exclusive of local taxation, as 119 to 100 It appears, therefore, that an English workman in Germany, and living so far as possible as he had been accustomed to live in England, would find his expenditure on rent (exclusive of local taxation), food and fuel increased by some 19 per cent, (or roughly by one-fifth). As regards wages and hours of labour :— Weekly money wages of the working classes in German towns are to weekly wages of the same classes in England, in the trades selected for comparison, as ... ... .. 83 to 100 Average usual working hours per week of the working classes in German towns are to those of the same classes in England, in the trades selected for comparison, as ... ... Ill to 100 Consequently the hourly rates of money wages for the working-classes in German towns are to those of the same classes in England, for the trades selected for comparison, as 75 to 100 Thus on the above basis the German rate of money wages per hour is about three-quarters of the English rate, and the cost of rent, food and fuel nearly one-fifth greater than in England. It may be as well to repeat here the two principal limitations of this estimate, viz., (1) the data as to wages and hours of labour are based on the building, engineering, and printing trades alone ; (2) the comparison of cost of living is based on the English standard of consumption, and covers only expenditure on food, fuel, and house room, or rather over three-quarters of the whole expenditure.

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