Bachelor of Arts (BA) In In recent times, such phrases as,
"Standard of Living" and "Purchasing Power", are on everybody's
lips. And yet these everyday expressions have no intelligible
meaning for many people. We find that in trying to clarify the
concept of real wages, we soon get into enough statistical
difficulties, to render the conclusion less positive than we had
hoped, would result. We have attempted our study in the
following order. First: An historical review of real wages in
Canada, obtained from wage rates, weighted with the cost of
living and adjusted for unemployment. Second: An analysis of
"Earnings Among Wage-Earners in Canada", as published by the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Bulletin No. 33 of the census
of 1931. Third: An attempt is made to relate these earnings to
representative budgets for that year. Royall, W H., "Real Wages
in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931"
(2011). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6613.
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