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Low
salaries
– about $160 per month – weaken motivation and encourage corruption; reports of officers colluding with rapists and other offenders for personal gain abound.
But, of course, Western elites also benefit from higher
salaries
and increased profits when intellectual and physical capital flows to low-wage countries with weaker labor protections.
Old people invest their savings and pensions from home computers; young men and women give up working for
salaries
to seek a big pay-off in the stock options on offer from dot.com firms.
When, a little over a year ago, 42 elementary school children and teachers in impoverished Jiangxi (south central China) were killed in an explosion, China's domestic newspapers and internet sites reported the explosion as the result of an appalling child-labor scheme: nine-year-old children had been forced to install detonators in firecrackers so that teachers could sell fireworks to supplement their
salaries.
Today, roughly half of all revenue goes to fund the inflated
salaries
and perks of government officials, including parliamentarians, governors, local and national bureaucrats, and endless legions of administrators.
The number of Gazan workers in Israel was reduced to a few hundred, and rising unemployment and poverty empowered armed factions, gangs, and warlords – a development that intensified after Hamas’s electoral victory in 2006, which resulted in an international siege that cut off public servants’
salaries
overnight.
Latvia slashed state
salaries
by 35% and the number of public agencies by half.
These companies find it harder to recruit skilled graduates when financial firms can pay higher
salaries.
With no
salaries
to pay teachers (or even the security services), his ability to influence even his own presidential guard was severely limited.
With at least 80% of the population dependent on government
salaries
or grants, the attacks have proved very unpopular.
Not only are fixed
salaries
revealed, but so are bonuses, fees for serving on boards of directors, returns on stock options, pension packages, and other perks, such as corporate jets or chauffeur-driven cars.
The French debate about executive compensation is particularly striking in this respect, because managers’
salaries
are in fact lower than those paid to their German, British, and American counterparts, and their remuneration has grown in step with corporate share prices, increasing six-fold in 25 years.
In a fairer world, these vulnerable citizens would be entitled to claw back the salaries, official privileges, and bonuses that the four parties to blame enjoyed for too long.
An estimated 45% of Saudi Arabia’s government budget is allocated to public-sector
salaries.
Next year,
salaries
for federal employees in the UAE will rise by 30-100%, while their Qatari counterparts’ wages will rise by 60-120%.
In OECD countries, the share of
salaries
in GDP has fallen by about ten percentage points, on average, to roughly 57%.
Indeed, progressive policies were at the heart of the economic expansion itself: a new generation of better-educated workers entered the labor force, earning higher
salaries
and reaping the dividends of social spending.
Meanwhile, adding to my anguish, the government delayed payment of our
salaries
– and not for the first time.
Earlier this year, the Saudi government was forced to cut public-sector
salaries
and subsidies on basic goods.
In 2011, the government, fearing contagion from Tunisia and Egypt, where long-established dictatorships had just been toppled, responded to the spread of protests by public-sector workers by raising their
salaries
by 100% – retroactively to 2008.
Top business
salaries
were rarely more than 20 or 30 times higher than average wages, and for most people differentials were far less.
Last year, the Karpov Commission "Report on the 200 biggest Russian Companies" showed that they made less than 25% of their payments of
salaries
or to other businesses in actual money.
Long ago, the advantage of a firm was that it lowered transaction costs (an idea first clearly expressed by the Nobel laureate economist Ronald Coase), such as the costs of finding workers, assigning them to tasks, assessing productivity, and setting
salaries.
They enjoy autonomy, full immunity, and, in the view of the governed, obscenely high
salaries.
There, as well as in Jordan and Turkey, local residents are facing financial ruin as rents and prices soar, unemployment rises, and
salaries
fall.
For a while, these countries finally had enough money to increase public-sector
salaries
and pensions, as well as spur private consumption and investment.
There is somewhat greater freedom of expression, with debates and criticism of several aspects of Cuba’s socialist model, such as low
salaries
and the dual monetary system, which has caused income inequality by favoring those who work in tourism and for foreign companies.
At the same time, Putin is attempting to boost Russia’s appeal by doubling Crimeans’ pensions, boosting the
salaries
of the region’s 200,000 civil servants, and constructing large, Sochi-style infrastructure, including a $3 billion bridge across the Kerch Strait.
The
salaries
of Italy’s military chiefs of staff and chief of police are almost triple those of their American counterparts.
From Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, tech workers earning six-figure
salaries
are dodging tent cities to get to work, and state and city governments are under increasing pressure to respond.
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