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Anticipating a skeptical public reaction when Singapore raised the
salaries
of government officials in 2007, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that he would forgo the raise for himself.
This can be discerned in the data, though in the United States a large part of the increase in inequality is due not to this logic but to the rise of what Piketty calls “super-managers,” who earn extremely high
salaries
(though he does not tell us why).
The public is upset about top managers’
salaries
and the fact that big German companies fire workers despite record profits.
If these executives donated even 5% of their
salaries
to such causes, they would be worthy of admiration, even if the causes were repugnant to some of us.
Increases in civil service
salaries
are not a sufficient policy response; structural reforms also are needed.
When it comes to the judiciary, it is clear that higher
salaries
for judges and clerks, better computer systems, and other technical equipment would improve the courts’ efficiency and performance.
While for-profit providers have higher administrative costs and larger executive salaries, their main burden relative to not-for-profit provision is the need to generate returns for their shareholders.
The government will find it impossible to fulfill basic obligations, such as paying
salaries
and pensions, and the country will formally default.
With no access to Libyan assets frozen abroad, it frequently paid
salaries
weeks in arrears.
Yet official US aid to Africa is only $3 billion per year, and much of that covers
salaries
for American consultants rather than investments in Africa’s needs.
Libyans complain that they have not been paid their monthly
salaries.
When the government spends $800 billion on such things as highway construction,
salaries
for teachers and policemen who were about to be laid off, and so on, it has an effect.
Worldwide, more than a billion women confront grinding and overt gender discrimination in education, nutrition, health care, and
salaries.
But in the Zuma era, concentrated wealth led to nepotistic hiring practices, political appointments based on clientelism (owing to higher
salaries
for government employees), and other forms of corruption.
Another risk is that, while the emirate has enjoyed a long period of political and economic stability, a significant regional upheaval could cause foreign workers, whatever their skill level, to take flight, regardless of the promise of high
salaries
and an attractive lifestyle.
On the contrary, lower wages will lead to decreased spending, aggravating the depression, and further increase the likelihood of immigration to the US, where
salaries
are substantially higher.
Nowadays, low
salaries
make many lives here miserable, pensions are a joke, and the shadow economy is vast.
Then, on December 5, the US Congress voted unanimously to adopt the Taylor Force Act, which blocks aid to the Palestinian Authority from 2018 to 2024, unless the PA stops paying monthly
salaries
and other benefits to the families of killed or convicted Palestinian militants.
And, collectively, that delusion boosts our savings, and thus our capital stock, which on turn boosts all of our wages and
salaries
as well.
If a scientist’s h-index is their bitcoin – convertible through
salaries
and research grants – then citations are the blockchain on which it depends.
The government monitors what the private sector pays for a wide range of skills, positions, and tasks, and it attempts to maintain public employees’
salaries
at no less than 75% of that level.
But paying decent
salaries
for honest government bureaucrats and judges requires tax revenue.
It needs international budget support for operations, salaries, and basic services.
Indeed, the secular decline in the proportion of national income accounted for by wages and
salaries
over the last 10 years in nearly every EU economy is a major obstacle to a recovery in private consumption.
And the flipside of the decline in wage and
salaries
– a steep rise in the proportion of national income accounted for by corporate profits – has not resulted in booming investment.
As productivity increased,
salaries
and living standards rose.
But focusing on women’s advancement is biased toward tracking how many are rising to the top: the overall percentage at work, their average salaries, and how many become CEOs, senior managers, tenured professors, bankers, surgeons, law partners, parliamentarians, presidents, and ministers.
These same companies not only pay higher
salaries
than their American counterparts, but account for 11.3% of capital investment in the US and provide 14.8% of its private-sector R&D.
Prices and
salaries
would be significantly affected, and the authorities would need to make the case that the long-term gains will eventually outweigh the intermediate hardships.
They do not ask themselves what they can do for Europe, but what Europe can do for them in terms of jobs and
salaries.
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