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The redistribution has been away from low-paid young workers, whose jobs and wages are genuinely threatened by trade and immigration, and toward the managerial and financial elites, who have gained the most from globalization, and elderly retirees, whose guaranteed pensions protect them from economic disruptions.
Minimum wages could be raised to reduce inequality.
In fact, it is possible that we are entering a period in which major adaptations in employment models, work weeks, contract labor, minimum wages, and the delivery of essential public services will be needed in order to maintain social cohesion and uphold the core values of equity and intergenerational mobility.
Little wonder, then, that globalization continues to call forth old-fashioned non-economic concepts like dignity, justice, fair prices, and decent wages.
Wages and prices fell, but not enough to allow Argentina to compete effectively, especially since many of the agricultural goods which constitute Argentina's natural comparative advantages face high hurdles in entering the markets of rich countries.
Such investments would drive a decisive shift from low-productivity to higher-productivity sectors, boosting employment and wages.
His criticism of the Posted Workers Directive – which allows workers from the region to undercut Western European wages and avoid payroll taxes – has made him as much a villain as Merkel in some countries.
If economic malaise becomes chronic, and employment and wages do not rise soon, populist parties may come closer to power in more European countries.
This spring, wages will increase – a long overdue development that will lead to greater consumption.
To address this problem, the companies that enjoy tax cuts should increase their employees' wages to keep pace with rising prices, instead of waiting for market forces to drive them up.
Wages in the small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that employ 88% of workers still lag behind those of major conglomerates, the chaebols; and the middle class is shrinking in terms of its share of earnings.
But that is a problem that should be addressed through higher wages and disability insurance, not with pension insurance.
Personal retirement savings, another pillar of the US retirement system, are woefully inadequate for most households, partly because the decades-long stagnation in median wages has made it difficult to save.
Banking, finance, insurance, and other business services, along with information and communications technology (ICT), are all high-productivity activities that pay high wages.
Banks were nationalized and wages were raised, causing repeated runs on the franc.
It seemed obvious for him to attack the stable currency as a conservative project for holding down working-class wages.
Even in developed countries where relatively higher wages encourage the adoption of labor-saving technology, job losses will likely be offset by projected increases in demand for goods and services, driven by productivity and income gains, growing health-care needs, and investment in alternative energy and infrastructure.
Without policy changes, the returns to labor will become increasingly uneven as the link between overall productivity growth and wages becomes ever more attenuated.
Both companies and governments can help close the gap between living and minimum wages.
In 2014, IKEA started paying living wages based on the MIT calculator, and other companies have since followed suit.
This means ensuring that local labor markets are healthy and that there are plenty of goods jobs at decent wages.
As for inequality, we may need to offset it through overt redistribution, with higher minimum wages or income support unrelated to people’s price in the job market, and through generous provision of high-quality public goods.
Immigrants, however, face a different set of alternatives; with wages in Brussels far higher than in Manila, for example, Filipino immigrants are generally happy to do such work.
Nor does it undercut wages, since most Europeans do not want these jobs.
As they spend their wages, they increase demand for people to produce the goods and services that they consume.
Retirements from an aging labor force will eventually drive up wages as well.
America’s relatively high rate encourages US companies to locate their investment, production, and employment in foreign countries, and discourages foreign companies from locating in the US, which means slower growth, fewer jobs, smaller productivity gains, and lower real wages.
But, as capital becomes more mobile, relatively immobile workers are bearing more of the burden in the form of lower wages and fewer job opportunities.
The resulting “race to the bottom” reflects intensifying global competition for capital and technological knowhow to support local jobs and wages.
But property prices have risen faster than wages and profits in manufacturing, causing the return on capital for a select few real-estate owners to grow faster than China’s GDP.
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