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But for this to be possible, interest payments must always be made on time, and the sanctity of debt contracts must always take precedence over electoral promises regarding pensions, wages, and public spending.
That can’t happen without increased wages and purchasing power for workers.
Wages throughout the economy have soared, with the average increase likely to hit a whopping 6% this year.
But the additional budget revenue has merely offset lower taxes, while high wages and interest rates are jacking up public expenses.
This does not mean, of course, that China should take no action to correct the undervaluation of its currency, though some recognition should be given to the way in which it is already contributing to solving this problem by allowing domestic wages to rise.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has the right idea, with negotiating objectives that cover labor issues and wages, transparency, corruption, and some aspects of human rights.
Issues relating to wages and working conditions will be particularly important to Mexico, where the prevailing approach can be called “patriotic exploitation.”
Mexico continues to operate under the assumption that wages low enough to attract and sustain investment ensure the shortest route to competitiveness.
For the renegotiation of NAFTA to be worthwhile, it must address wages, corruption, and human rights – all particularly serious challenges for Mexico today.
The world of chess, with which I am closely familiar, starkly illustrates the way in which innovation in the coming decades may have a very different effect on relative wages than it did over the past three decades.
But at least the West’s working class had access to cheap loans and inflated house prices to offset the impact of stagnant wages and declining fiscal transfers.
Zombie banks should be restructured, excessive debts (both private and public) written down, and increased investment combined with reforms to boost productivity (and thus wages).
In the United States, the increased use of robots has, according to a 2017 study, hurt employment and wages.
Workers face everything from rampant discrimination against older people (those over 35) to physical abuse, lack of bathroom breaks, no overtime pay, and poverty wages.
If Salvadorans’ wages are squeezed, they won’t be buying many products made in Los Angeles — unless, of course, they wind up moving there.
The anemic labor standards enshrined in this agreement encourage firms to compete by taking the low road, a route that puts them on a collision course with China’s rock-bottom wages.
Economists who advocate the euro argue that anything which exchange rate adjustments can do can also be done by movements of commodity prices and wages.
But if countries like China can combine Western technology with low wages, then trade with China will lower Western wages.
If a homeowner stops making mortgage payments, the creditor can take the property but cannot take other assets or a fraction of wages.
This narrative puts the blame for stagnant wages and rising inequality on technological forces beyond our control.
By allowing for exchange-rate flexibility, this approach would also enable the central bank to avoid the twin hazards that arise in a currency union: undervaluation, which produces inflationary pressure, and overvaluation, which demands wrenching internal devaluations (driving down real wages).
In practically all impoverished societies, parents place wages above education.
Many inflation hawks, some inside the Fed, thought unemployment rates below 6% were dangerous, but Greenspan let unemployment fall towards pre-1970 rates as long as prices and wages remain well-behaved.
This translates into anemic growth in real wages, for many workers stagnant or declining wages.
Many unskilled jobs pay ever lower wages.
Northern Europeans with money to invest were willing to lend on extraordinarily easy terms to those in the south who wanted to spend, and ample pre-2007 spending made employers there willing to raise wages rapidly.
Now, if, as appears to be the case, Europe does not want its south to spend more than it earns and its north to spend less, wages, prices, and productivity must shift.
Earnings gains have been especially strong for those with tertiary degrees, while the real wages of high-school educated workers, especially men, have fallen sharply.
The resulting unusual economic environment of falling prices and wages can also have a damaging psychological impact on households and businesses.
America’s president is captive to the country’s labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.
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