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People earn wages or acquire income in other ways; then the government takes some of it away from them in taxes.
They want to know about living wages and zero-hours contracts.
Short of dropping out of the eurozone, the only real option available to Greece, Spain, and the others to boost competitiveness is to engineer a one-time across-the-board reduction in nominal wages and prices for utilities and services.
The European Central Bank’s low inflation target (2%) renders it virtually impossible, as it implies requisite downward adjustment in wages and prices of 10% or more.
Moreover, in recent decades, profits have risen not only at the expense of wages, but also with much more accruing to finance, insurance, and real estate compared to other sectors.
5.Democratization in the work place - Powerful trade unions -- a general strike was called just before 1996 ended -- brings to an end a time where firms could allow wages to lag behind productivity by years.
How such trade liberalization affects employment and wages – a question that has come to the fore in recent years – is the subject of the WTO’s recently publishedWorld Trade Report 2017.
The report finds that more open trade tends to increase both wages and the rate of employment, but that not all workers benefit.
Yet India’s textile industry could not compete against Britain’s, even though British wages were five times higher.
The paltry historical data available for analysis suggest that, around 1820 or so, wages (adjusted down for bouts of inflation in prior decades and up for deflation in subsequent decades) took off in a similar fashion.
Of course, unemployment insurance replaces only a fraction of most workers’ previous wages, which suggests that its effect in this regard is not very strong.
Whereas some German companies persuaded workers to accept wage cuts to help weather the financial crisis, wages across the southern periphery have been marching steadily upwards, even as productivity has remained stagnant.
Third, collective bargaining over wages and employment would be decentralized from national to sectoral and/or firm level.
Auto companies can certainly afford to pay higher wages, and this provision on its own may not undermine employment prospects in Mexico.
And the gap can now be measured not just in wages, but also in early deaths.
Wages of male high school graduates have plummeted by some 19% in the period studied by Case and Deaton.
Its main proponents are creditors, who have much to gain from it (relative to the alternative of raising domestic wages and forgiving debts).
For most people in the West, wages and living standards have stagnated for decades.
But it’s worth asking how much of this increased prosperity was paid in the form of taxes, because the answer – not as much as if income had been in wages and salaries – is one reason why so many economists are so worried.
He has also called for the appointment of a eurozone finance minister, and for measures to harmonize corporate taxes and minimum wages across member states.
American middle- and working-class wages have stagnated because Wall Street pressed companies to outsource the valuable jobs that made up America’s manufacturing base, first to low-wage Mexicans and then to the Chinese.
There were good reasons for the US to offload industries that required low wages to be globally competitive.
Likewise, competitiveness losses have been partly reversed as wages have lagged productivity growth, thus reducing unit labor costs, and some structural reforms are ongoing.
But, in the short run, austerity, lower wages, and reforms are recessionary, while the adjustment process in the eurozone has been asymmetric and recessionary/deflationary.The countries that were spending more than their incomes have been forced to spend less and save more, thereby reducing their trade deficits; but countries like Germany, which were over-saving and running external surpluses, have not been forced to adjust by increasing domestic demand, so their trade surpluses have remained large.
Some direct intervention in wages may help.
Japan, which faces stagnant wages, despite apparent labor shortages, may stand to benefit the most from this approach.
Such spending could even help get tax revenues growing, by pushing employment and wages higher.
The combined social security tax on employees and employers in Argentina had reached 50 percent of wages, a crushing burden.
The privatization program started in 1994 gives each worker the option of either remaining in the old system, or placing their additional old age contributions--prescribed at no less than 111 percent of their wages -- into one of many private pension companies.
The fear is that once wages and incomes begin to fall, the EU will move from the doldrums of recent years into an outright depression that could take decades to escape.
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