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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524 It is evident that in such, circumstances the length of this qualifying period is of no small importance. In 1906, the large union of metal workers of Stuttgart showed an increase of over 42 per cent, over the previous year. Thus 30 per cent, certainly, and probably a larger proportion, had been members for less than a year, which is, in this case, the qualifying period ; and other unions show similarly large figures of members whose claim to benefit has not yet matured. During the period of rapid growth through which the German unions have recently been passing, a large proportion of their members will have had but little interest in recording unemployment on their part. The fact, too, that there has, in some cases, been, not only a large accession of members, but large losses, and losses largely of recently joined members, means that a considerable number of the nominal membership have not been at any time qualified to claim unemployed benefit. All these considerations suggest doubt as to the completeness of the data from which the German records of unemployment have been computed at all events in the past. Even were they complete, it has been shown above that they could not be brought into direct comparison with the British figures. The movements of each set of figures over a period of time furnish an index, more or less complete, to the fluctuations of employment within the country concerned, but, however useful the comparison of the figures for each country at different times may be, the comparison of the figures for the two countries at the same time cannot, unfortunately, yield any trustworthy basis for comparing or contrasting the degrees of continuity of employment prevailing in these countries.

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