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Stagnating middle-class wages and family incomes are a major factor behind the US economy’s slow recovery from the 2007-2009 recession, and pose a serious threat to long-term growth and competitiveness.
Stagnant middle-class incomes imply weak aggregate demand, which in turn means slack labor markets and stagnant wages for most workers.
According to standard economic theory, real wages should track productivity.
Since then, real wages for the typical worker have flat-lined, while productivity has continued to climb.
Mishel calculates that productivity increased 80.4% from 1948 to 2011, while median real wages rose only 39% – almost none of the wage growth occurred during the last four decades.
But real wages climbed 154% for the top 1% of wage earners and 39% for the top 5%, while real wages stagnated for the bottom 20th percentile of workers and fell for the bottom tenth.
But it is not enough to increase most workers’ wages or most families’ incomes.
More equitable sharing of profits with America’s workers and their families would do much to address the worrisome stagnation of wages and middle-class incomes in recent decades.
Shifted to the regions, however, is responsibility for many social issues, including the problem of low wages.
These subsidies are also intended to be used to raise wages (first of all, for public employees) and pensions.
One exception is the Great Depression, which Prescott says was caused by real wages far exceeding equilibrium values, owing to President Herbert Hoover’s extraordinary pro-labor, pro-union policies.
So he relocated his operations to South Paris, Maine, where wages were lower.
When smaller economies gain access to a much larger market, trade volumes expand and wages rise, with a small part of the trade expansion diverted from other countries (one of Russia’s concerns).
Migrants from struggling countries in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and other regions are increasingly securing jobs at wages that, while low by rich country standards, are far higher than they could dream of back home.
If, controverting Gordon’s thesis, today’s technologies do boost productivity significantly, the return on investment would rise (unless labor receives all of the gains in the form of higher wages, an outcome that nobody expects).
Since the onset of the crisis, Greek wages have dropped by more than 15% – a process called, appropriately enough, internal devaluation.
As a result, Greek export prices have not come down nearly as much as wages.
Implementing our program of social justice and economic growth will allow wages to be doubled in the course of a year by bringing them into line with labor's contribution to the national income, expanding workers' rights to stand up for their interests, and increasing the minimum wage by three times.
Real wages should grow fourfold by 2010; pensions must also grow accordingly.
The candidate countries also display greater flexibility of nominal prices and wages.
One is the old model: a recovery in real wages and a resumption of consumption.
Of course, this will depress real wages and consumption, because the rise in peso revenues will be used instead to finance the investment needed to expand the export sector.
Eventually productivity gains in a larger export sector will drive up real wages and consumption.
Appalling wages are just the start.
Enter the Campaign for Fair Food – a fight for better wages and conditions that Florida tomato pickers and their allies have fought and largely won.
The FFP has not only lifted workers’ wages.
Moreover, while NAFTA locked Mexico into many needed and desirable economic reforms, it never delivered on the promise of growth: Since 1994, annual economic growth has averaged just 2.5% – low by emerging-market standards – while the figures for productivity, employment, and wages are similarly disappointing.
After NAFTA, the policies needed to mitigate globalization’s negative effects – such as higher minimum wages for manufacturing workers – were never implemented.
The same negative effect on the current account could occur if the corporate sector increases its rate of investment in plant and equipment or reduces corporate saving by paying higher wages or dividends.
Consider, for example, wages and employment.
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