Recursos de historia económica, social y política

En esta web se centraliza los datos de Allen (y Unger) sobre precios y salarios en varias ciudades del mundo entre el siglo XIII y 1914. Naturalmente, cada ciudad reporta datos para distintos siglos (pero siempre dentro de aquel margen).

Source: International Labour Office, Year book of Labour Statistics 1935-1955

The ICOP project now covers about 30 countries in Asia, East and West Europe, and North and South America. Comparisons of manufacturing output and productivity, which are based on unit value ratio comparisons and disaggregated into 16 manufacturing branches, are available for almost all of these countries. Comparisons for agriculture, transport and communication and wholesale and retail trade are available for a smaller group of countries. Comparisons for all sectors of the economy, adding up to total GDP, are available for Brazil, Japan, Korea, Mexico and the United States.

The 60-Industry Database is a comprehensive internationally comparable dataset on industrial performance with annual numbers of value added, employment, hours and productivity for the OECD countries and Taiwan.

Provides information on Gross Domestic Product, including an industry breakdown, for the 19th and 20th centuries. This dataset is a complement to Angus Maddison’s estimates of World GDP. It gives the user GDP estimates at current as well as constant prices, and presents more detailed estimates at an industry level.

A database on measures of economic growth, productivity, employment creation, capital formation and technological change at the industry level for all European Union member states from 1970 onwards. The input measures include various categories of capital, labour, energy, material and service inputs. Productivity measures have also been developed, in particular with growth accounting techniques.

Provides a long-run internationally comparable dataset on sectoral productivity performance in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US. Variables covered in the data set are annual series of value added, output deflators, and persons employed for 10 broad sectors.