Wages and prices of consumer goods in Germany, 1850 to 1889.
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA8710 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13334
Abstract: The study constructs new series of nominal wages in industry and crafts as well as a new consumer goods price index for the period 1850-1889; the coefficient of the two series gives the real wage. While such information was collected and published by government agencies from the late 1880s onwards, the decades before are part of the pre-statistical age. After all, information is available from municipal authorities, from branches of territorial state authorities and from individual companies.
For the construction of a new nominal wage series, the current study refer to Kuczynski´s material (1 ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 1850 - 1889
Geographic coverage: German Reich (1871-1945) (DXDE), German Reich
Number of Units: 40
Analysis System(s): Excel
Number of Variables: 67 Zeitreihen
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Pfister, Ulrich - Universität Münster, Historisches Seminar
Publication year: 2019
DOI: 10.4232/1.13334
Study number: ZA8710
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2019-08-06, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13334
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Ulrich Pfister (2018), Real Wages in Germany during the First Phase of Industrialization, 1850-1889. In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2018; 59(2): 567-596. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2018-0019
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