Línea de pobreza y salarios, 1913-1925. Una primera aproximación

• Autor: Zegarra, Luis Felipe
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2011
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/2613
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/economia/article/view/2613
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Poverty; Prices; Wages; Peru

This article relies on linear programming to calculate the extreme poverty line between 1913 and 1925. Using several sources, I estimate the minimum amount of income that a family had to earn in order to afford its basic feeding needs. Our estimations indicate that the minimum basket of foodstuff was afforded with a little more than a sol per day before the First World War, and that the cost of such basket increased to more than twice toward the end of the war. A comparison with the salaries of the period indicates that in Lima a large number of workers could afford the basket of basic foodstuff of their families, especially if more than one member of the family received wages; but that such ability largely declined by the end of the 1910s