This decline reflects the wage cap on social security taxes (currently at 102,000).

This decline reflects the wage cap on social security taxes (currently at 102,000).

For example, high unemployment has depressed wages and increased poverty.

Nor is it inflationary if the wage increases are financed by higher taxes.

Indeed, cuts in public sector wages can yield at most 1 2 of GDP in fiscal consolidation.

Wage gains have shown signs of picking up.

In contrast, Cambodia has no fixed wages.

The workers asked for an increase in pay.

But deflation is associated with persistent recession (see Argentina again), and no country s society and political system can accept years of recession and fiscal austerity to achieve real depreciation.

One is deflation that reduces prices and wages by 20 30 .

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Norway offers 49 weeks of parental leave with full pay, or 58 weeks with 80 pay.

He advocated the reduction of taxes.

But improvements in productivity are easily overwhelmed by changes in wages.

They raised a banner and urged for their salary to be paid.

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A rapid reduction in unit labor costs, through structural reforms that increased productivity growth in excess of wages, is just as unlikely.

But, more importantly, when private incomes fall, government social welfare expenditures rise, sparking a recovery in demand, output, investment, and employment.

The reduction in tax collection can increase disposable income.

In America, at least, 2006 is likely to be another year in which stagnant real wages freeze, or even erode, the living standards of those in the middle.

Without its own currency, the only cure for a chronic trade deficit is real wage reductions or relative productivity increases.

This is another important consequence of cheap oil lower prices make it more difficult to judge the point at which wage pressure becomes inflationary.

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Governments can, of course, enforce public sector wage cuts.

Meanwhile, wage growth remains strong and uninterrupted.

One of the demands of activist groups in Cambodia is to raise the country's monthly minimum wage.

Assuming that Greece wishes to stay within the eurozone, an internal devaluation, i.e., a significant cut in nominal wages, is inevitable.

But there is little empirical evidence that public sector wages have a significant impact on private sector wage growth.

But Bangladesh s government is considering an increase in the minimum wage.

A related proposal for targeted wage subsidies is being floated in Germany.

The decision seems to be directly targeted at low wage migrant workers

I'm afraid your request for a pay raise was turned down again.

Tax cuts for the richest Americans were part of the package.

Ultimately, reducing wages, public services, and household income impedes human development, threatens political stability, lowers demand, and delays recovery.

The City of London, lower Manhattan, and a few other centers became money machines that made investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and private equity folk immoderately wealthy.

A domestic saving rate in excess of 50 has served China well.

Against that background, it is not surprising that pay in the financial sector soared.

Tom and Mary were discussing the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage.

The Spanish government, for example, could have met Spain s building boom and foreign trade deficit with tax increases or by urging domestic wage restraint.

Minimum wage increases, for example, counteract income tax credits and lower payroll taxes aimed at encouraging youth employment.

Income tax relief due in 2003 has been postponed.

All major political forces (even of the left) support reducing taxes.

Consider another example military pay versus pay in civilian firms.

This rate is well above, for example, the wage of unskilled labor in the iron and steel industry.