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4 Ιαν 2011 · This article develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, and Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, and compares them with leading cities in Europe, Japan, and India in terms of nominal wages, the cost of living, and the standard of living.
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Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925: in...
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Improvements since then saw the average national life expectancy rise from around forty-four years in 1949 to sixty-eight years in 1985, while the Chinese population estimated to be living in absolute poverty fell from between 200 and 590 million in 1978 to 70 million in 2017. [2]
1 Απρ 2024 · The first is whether labour payments in early modern China reflected the factor price of labour. The second is whether wage-dependent labourers in China provide any useful information on the economy and the living conditions of the labour force in general.
1 Ιουλ 2010 · Our paper represents the first attempt to construct a more comprehensive profile of the evolution of Chinese living standards and human capital in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries based on the integration of large-sample based real wage and anthropometric evidences.
Attempts to reconstruct basic aspects of the standard of living in late eighteenth century China, focusing primarily on the Yangzi Delta (China’s richest region) but also briefly considering other areas, and arguing that for most of the population it was probably broadly comparable to Western Europe at the same time.
7 Φεβ 2022 · That is, while the total size of the Chinese economy may have grown due to the rising population, per capita living standards failed to rise above historical norms and might have even declined during the long period.
2014. This paper investigates China’s economic development between 1840 and 1912. We look at living standards and general economic trends in the late Qing dynasty and discuss the reliability of existing estimations of per capita GDP. Secondly, we introduce a new estimate of long-term growth.
