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With time, the incentive effects would progressively weaken, and the structural lift to employment would disappear, as workers and managers grew wealthier in response to their higher after-tax wages.
In Latin America’s middle-class societies, good jobs at good wages matter.
Rising education costs, housing prices, and wages (which increase the opportunity cost of having children) may mean that, even without strict controls, China’s natural fertility rate will not return to the 1970 level.
But most researchers believe that the sources of widening US inequality lie primarily within earned income, rather than arising from the difference between earned income (wages and salaries) and unearned income (return on capital).
Because the EITC expands the supply of low-income workers, it can exert downward pressure on wages.
The cut in corporate taxes that the Republicans are likely to support will not boost wages significantly.
The governments of Switzerland and Singapore can hardly be called liberal, but they have undertaken similar measures on wages and subsidies.
We can use average wages to estimate the value of the time people spend online using free digital products, or we can adjust telecommunication services output to account for the rapid growth in Internet traffic.
Because of their pressure, employment fell, reducing the share of wages in total national income by 10% over the past 30 years.
The popularity of these "new model" Nazis grows in proportion to the despair incited by unpaid wages, unheated apartments, vanishing supplies of food, and the increasingly ugly and public squabbles around the decrepit occupant of the Kremlin throne.
Their agenda is a no nonsense hanging of the corrupt, a restoration through state subsidies of industrial (for large numbers of people) jobs, paying equal wages to everybody, and stopping crime by clamping down hard on the streets.
China’s population of 25-to-64-year-olds, by contrast, faces a possible fall from 930 million to 730 million, driving up real wages and creating powerful incentives for high investment in automation.
Real wages need to rise.
Mexico, Brazil, Central Europe, Indonesia, and even Sri Lanka are worried about competition from lower wages.
By the end of the 19th century, however, Germany, with much lower wages levels, had overtaken England in steel production, and was clearly dominant in the new technologies of electrical goods, chemicals, and dyes, as well as in many aspects of fine engineering.
Rising wages and sharply declining returns to capital in traditional industrial sectors have underscored the need to accelerate modernization – an imperative that has been reflected consistently in the central government’s reform strategies.
Furthermore, populations in the eurozone’s stagnant economies are increasingly demanding that Germany change its policies, increasing wages and implementing measures aimed at boosting consumption and discouraging savings.
In Tunisia, labor unions have managed to push civil-servant wages – which now equal 15% of GDP, up from 10% of GDP in 2011 – well above IMF targets.
For example, the new Tunisian cabinet formed in August includes ex-union leaders, who can now shape broad economic policies, not just press for higher wages.
While manufacturing wages remain significantly lower in China than in the US, the rapidly narrowing gap is already fueling American reshoring.
Given that Chinese wages are rising at an annual rate of 15-20%, productivity-adjusted wage rates in low-cost US states are expected to exceed those in some coastal regions of China by only 40% in 2015.
As Chinese firms have become more competitive, wages and environmental standards in China have risen.
When today's Duma was elected, many cast a nostalgic vote for the good-old Soviet times when wages were paid, the future was unchanging, and you did not need to work too hard.
Median income in the US is lower today than it was a quarter-century ago – not because productivity has been stagnating, but because wages have.
For starters, rapid growth and labor shortages (owing to an unfavorable demographic transition) have caused wages in China to rise substantially, far exceeding those of other developing countries such as Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam.
If unions bid up wages too high, a devaluation could fix the problem; if provincial governments spent a little too much, a quick round of peso printing would save the day.
Without an inflationary cushion labor markets would have to be modernized, and peso wages would fall to the point were the country could compete internationally.
The alternative would be to cut nominal wages (“internal” devaluation), which is hard to do (though it has been achieved in Latvia and Ireland).
As wealth was wiped out and wages contracted, consumption growth collapsed.
Artificial Intelligence and GlobalizationToday’s conventional wisdom is that the rise of India and China will be the single biggest factor driving global jobs and wages over the twenty-first century.
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