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Diferencias regionales en el costo de vida en Argentina a comienzos del siglo XX

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  • M. Florencia Correa Deza

    (Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales (ISES-CONICET-UNT) y Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina)

  • Esteban A. Nicolini

    (CIEDH, INVECO, Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, España)

Abstract

The analysis of the living standards in Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th century is hindered by the lack of a consistent comparison of prices across regions. In this article we calculate price indexes of food for several cities in several years between 1903 and 1912 using data from the Bulletins of the National Labor Department. Although local price indices follow a pattern with common characteristics, both the price levels and the inflation rates are quite specific of each province. Cities in the central region of the country and with a relatively large population (Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Cordoba) have lower price levels than the cities in the peripheral areas of the country and with a smaller size (San Juan, Posadas, Jujuy). Moreover, those areas with larger sectors of livestock and wheat production tend to have lower prices of meat and bread and, consequently, lower price levels. KEY Classification-JEL: E31. N36. N96

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  • M. Florencia Correa Deza & Esteban A. Nicolini, 2014. "Diferencias regionales en el costo de vida en Argentina a comienzos del siglo XX," Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, Asociación Española de Historia Económica, vol. 10(03), pages 202-212.
  • Handle: RePEc:ahe:invest:v:10:y:2014:i:03:p:202-212
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    Cited by:

    1. Marc Badia-Miró & Esteban Nicolini & Henry Willebald, 2017. "Growth and regional disparities in the Southern Cone, 1890-1960," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 17-11, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    2. Gerardo Sánchez, 2017. "Evolución económica de las provincias argentinas durante la Belle Époque (1880-1913). Un análisis a través de los recursos fiscales," Tiempo y Economía, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, vol. 4(2), pages 89-112, August.

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    Keywords

    Precios. Alimentos. Argentina. Provincias;

    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N96 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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