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Title
Wage Convergence and Divergence in East Asia, 1900-39
Creator
Creator Name
Cha, Myung Soo Cha, Myung Soo
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Yeungnam University
Editor
Contributor Name
社会科学の高度統計・実証分析拠点構築 = Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences
Key Word
price
wage
living standards
skill premium
ethnic wage gap
JEL
E31
N1
N3
J3
Abstract
This study calculates Robert Allen's “welfare ratio” for eleven cities in Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan from 1900-39. Although considerable gap in prices and nominal wages existed, real wages remained roughly comparable in the 1910s in different cities of East Asia outside Manchuria, where unskilled workers enjoyed substantially higher living standards. Interwar decades saw real wage grow at different speeds in East Asian cities, causing both convergence, e.g. between Dairen and Tokyo, and divergence, e.g. between Beijing and Taipei. Workers in various cities of East Asia fared differently, primarily because productivity advanced at distinct speeds depending upon the amount of human capital available.
Description
November 2012
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2012-11
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series ; No. 253
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Related Identifier
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  http://gcoe.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/index.html
Number of Pages
40
Sponsorship
グローバルCOEプログラム = Global COE Program
Appears in Collections
Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/23302