El salario como indicador: consumo, niveles de vida y desequilibrios en el mercado de trabajo. Mallorca 1860-1936

Abstract

[eng] The Real Wages as indication: Consumption Rules, Standard of Living and throw off balance in the Labour Market. Majorca: 1860-1936. Recent historiographical works have shown that the elaboration of Cost-of-Living Index in Spain an for pre-statistics stages, is always a perfectible labour. Based on the certain that only a good knowledge of the concrete consumption rule, the cultural mechanism of relation and the ways of work, permit the appropriate ponderation of the different variables of the expense, our essay offers a new Standard of Living Index elaborated with homologue statistical criterion with the objective of guarantee the results comparison, plus the aggregations and the link with chronologically different series. The first results, in reference to the ambit of Majorca, indicate to us that the evolution of the real wages not only influences on the composition of the consumption items, but also to induce, in part, changes in the labor relations and the productive processes. Key Words: Consumer Price Index, cost of Living, real wages, regional analysis, Majorca economic stages 1860-1936.