El bienestar en España: una perspectiva de largo plazo, 1850–1991

Abstract

RESUMENLos historiadores económicos han estimado tradicionahnente el bienestar ^n términos de renta por persona. Durante la última década se han publicado, sin embargo, diversos trabajos que utilizan otros indicadores. Siguiendo esta "nea de investigación, el artículo contrasta cuatro indicadores del bienestar en ^spaña (renta per capita, índice de Desarrollo Humano, índice Físico de Calidad oe Vida y estatura), dos de los cuales son inéditos (IDH e IFCV). Los resultados complican el objeto de estudio, pero sirven para proponer algunas hipótesis que "Cbcn ser ratificadas o desmentidas por futuras investigaciones. Agradecemos a los evaluadores las críticas y sugerencias que realizaron a la primera ersion del trabajo, que nos han servido para mejorarlo.

The living standard of miners in Biscay (1876-1936): wages, the human development index and height

“…It would have been desirable to construct HDIs for miners in other Spanish regions in order to compare them with that of Biscayan miners, but this was impossible because, in the case of the Alquifes or Río Tinto mines, we do not know the real wage, the average family size or the life expectancy 41 and, in the Cartagena mining industry, we know the life expectancy in El Beal, which reached a lower level than that of Biscayan mines (18.2 years in 1890 and 20.5 in 1895), but not the real wage or the average family size (Navarro Ortiz et al 2004). However, it is possible to compare the HDI of Biscayan miners with the figures Escudero and Simó n have estimated for Spain, though this would require a reconstruction of the latter with minimum and maximum life expectancy values of 19.9 and 85 years -instead of 25 and 85 -for the purpose of homogenising it with that of the miners (Escudero & Simó n 2003). After making this adjustment, the HDI of miners is situated below the Spanish index during the 1880s (0.232 as opposed to 0.310), the 1890s (0.302 as opposed to 0.314) and also in 1900 (0.316 as opposed to 0.399).…”

“…2 Examples of research works that use the Quality of Life Physical Index are those of Federico and Toniolo (1991) and Dominguez Martin and Guijarro Garvi (2000). Long HDI series for several countries can be found in Costa-Steckel (1997), Crafts (1997aCrafts ( , 1997bCrafts ( , 2002, Floud and Harris (1997), Horlings and Smits (1988), Escudero-Simó n (2003) and Astorga et al (2005). Crafts (1997a) has estimated Dasgupta-Weale Indices for some European countries between 1760 and 1860.…”

The Standard of Living of the Workers in a Spanish Industrial Town: Wages, Nutrition, Life Expentancy and Heigth in Alcoy (1870–1930)

“…More recently, Stiglitz et al (2010). For the Spanish case, Escudero and Simón (2003) have studied the evolution of well-being between 1850 and 1992 using income per person, the Physical Quality of Life Index, the Human Development Index and height. century, Felipe V's New Plant Decrees after the War of Succession 5 unified the Spanish market, so alcoyan drapes could be sold in Castile and in the American colonies without yielding custom duties.…”

El Discurso Higiénico en La Prensa Conquense De Comienzos Del Siglo Xx

“…Entre 1914 y 1919 la renta por persona disminuyó como consecuencia de la Primera Guerra Mundial, lo cual supuso una crisis del nivel de vida durante estos años 76 . La no intervención de España en la guerra favoreció un aumento de las exportaciones.…”