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The level of labour productivity in German mining, crafts and industry in 1913: evidence from output data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2008
Abstract
Germany's historical national accounts are controversially discussed in a series of recent papers by Fremdling and Stäglin (2004, 2005), Ritschl (2004) and Burhop and Wolff (2005). The growth of the German economy during the nineteenth century, the level of economic development reached in 1913 and the depth of the interwar slump are the major points of concern. This short article contributes to this debate by providing a benchmark estimate of labour productivity in mining, crafts and industry in 1913 using official input–output data. We confirm earlier results by Burhop and Wolff (2005) that the level of labour productivity in 1913 was much higher than the classical work by Hoffmann (1965) suggests.
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