Living Wages Around the World

Living Wages Around the World
Author: Richard Anker
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2017-01-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786431467

This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data.

Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor

Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Author: Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 828
Release: 1901
Genre: Labor and laboring classes
ISBN:

This report includes population statistics by towns (1865-1895), industrial statistics, detailed town statistics (details which cannot be tabulated collected by special agents of the Bureau), the Western Islanders, The Province lands, possibilities of irrigation, state aid to land occupants, graded weekly wages (by job title), wage analysis, labor chronology-1896, hours of labor, trade unions, labor legislation-1897, and a summary of labor movements during the year 1896.