Estimating Real Wage Series by Prefecture in Prewar Japan: an Analysis of the Agricultural Sector between the 1890s and the 1930s
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24530391
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
OGIYAMA MASAHIRO 千葉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (90323469)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | 賃金 / 農業 / 小農 / 市場 / 経済発展 / 地域 / 商品作物 / 肥料 / 地域差 / 土地生産性 / 農家 / 家計 / 労働供給 / 農業生産力 / 労働市場 / 家計所得 / 市場経済 / 奉公人 / 自給生産 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In Japan real wages are considered to have remained stagnate despite agricultural growth prior to World War II. Yet, this view requires to be examined because it underestimates regional changes. In this context I estimated regional real wage series in Japan from the 1880s to the 1920s by focusing on the two cases of the northeast area of Tokushima prefecture and the Shimabara peninsula of Nagasaki prefecture, defined as advanced and backward regions with high and low agricultural productivities in the 1880s respectively. The analysis reveals that in both regions real wages increased due to agricultural growth.
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