Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DE ZWART, PIM
• VAN ZANDEN, JAN LUITEN

Titel

Labor, wages, and living standards in Java, 1680-1914

Ist Teil von

• European review of economic history, 2015-08, Vol.19 (3), p.215-234

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The development of living standards in Java has long been a subject of scholarly interest. A number of scholars have suggested that between 1600 and 1900 Southeast Asian living standards declined significantly. The present article contributes to these issues by calculating long-term real wages for Java between 1680 and 1914, following Allen's subsistence basket methodology. New data on wages and prices were collected from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives and connected to data on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resultant long-term real wage developments show a slightly different picture of Javanese living standards than that which has emerged from the literature to date.