Without fanfare, German workers accepted longer hours without increases in pay.

The difference between the two countries is that, in Germany, working times were increased without compensating pay increases.

Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages.

The French actions follow changes in Germany, where some recent wage settlements resulted in longer working times. The difference between the two countries is that, in Germany, working times were increased without compensating pay increases.

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

This represents a 0.9 percent increase in wages earned by women since 2003.

This reward may present itself in the form of a pay increase, promotion, recognition or sense of accomplishment.

The adjustment might come about through wage increases in countries with lower labor costs, rather than cuts in countries where costs are too high.

If every increase in the after tax wage rate gave a permanent boost to the amount of labor supplied, we reasoned, steeply rising after tax wages since the mid nineteenth century would have brought an extraordinary increase in the length of the workweek and in retirement ages.

Money wages will lag behind demand, I argued, only as long as the representative firm is deterred from raising wages by the misperception that wages at other firms are already lower than its own a disequilibrium that cannot last.

Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer for Apple and Dell, has announced wage increases of as much as 70 .

We demand an increase in the wages of the public and private sectors to decrease the burden of living expenses on the working class

For the less qualified in Western Europe, a decrease in employment will be inevitable, because the scope for wage fluctuation is limited by collective agreements and by the minimum wage levels that the welfare state sets through wage replacement benefits and legal minimum wages.

Concretely, that means wage increases in Germany and industrial policies that promote exports and productivity in Europe s peripheral economies.

The official response to this is that no country should be forced to increase wages, and that everybody gains if structural reforms increase productivity.

Muted wage growth increases competitiveness, and underutilized labor and capital are redeployed.

The French actions follow changes in Germany, where some recent wage settlements resulted in longer working times.

Revolutions tend to confront new governments with steeply rising social demands (for wage increases and higher welfare spending, for example) at a time of capital flight, financial turmoil, and deep disruptions of production.

Moreover, this relatively good trade performance has been achieved with a much lower increase in wage inequality in Europe than in the US.

Since the implementation of the Pay Equity Act, progress has been made in closing the gap in salaries.

If that happens, a homeowner with a mortgage would see the real value of his debt rise by 10 . Since price declines would bring with them wage declines, the ratio of monthly mortgage payments to wage income would rise.

In the euro s initial years, Germany had no option but to reduce worker protections, limit wage increases, and reduce pensions as it tried to increase employment.

Honda has offered its transmission factory workers in China a 24 wage increase to head off a crippling strike.

But improvements in productivity are easily overwhelmed by changes in wages. While productivity growth usually is measured in fractions of a percentage point, wage increases have been much larger.

The wage gap within organizations that have implemented pay equity under the policy framework has been reduced for those organizations.

By focusing on job creation, wage increases, and the social safety net, the 12th Five Year Plan could spark a major increase in discretionary consumer purchasing power.

Benefits from increased future wages and the reduction in health care use would be between three and 26 times higher.

The young normally face low, current wage income, but faster growth in future income, and would ideally borrow against future income to augment consumption today and to invest in education.

Chinese wages are even lower, at just 4 of the western German average.

The difference in wages shall be compensated.

Unfortunately, past spending pushed up wages, without a commensurate increase in productivity, leaving the heavy spenders indebted and uncompetitive.

Determination of wages.

Nominal wages may increase, while real wages stagnate, owing to higher inflation.

Growth will not resume until production costs in the indebted countries decline, which requires either a substantial permanent increase in productivity, a reduction in real wages, or both.

Without fanfare, German workers accepted longer hours without increases in pay. This allowed Germany to improve its competitive position in world markets vis à vis the other large euro zone economies, where there were no productivity revolutions, silent or otherwise.

In February 2002, an independent task force on pay equity created a report entitled Working Through the Wage Gap.

Taxes. Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher income individuals and small businesses.

To prevent serious social tension, China s government (at various levels) has begun to intervene by enforcing higher minimum wages, in addition to investing in a social safety net for the poor.

Under Chapter IX of the Act, employers can ask the Commission de l'équité salariale to approve, under certain conditions, a pay equity or salary relativity plan completed before the adoption of the Act.

As for the determination of salaries at the Council of Ministers level, the Law on the Civil Service in Bosnia and Herzegovina Institutions sets forth criteria for salaries, accounting for salaries and the structure of salaries for civil servants in joint institutions.

The rapid increases in prices generally, made worse by increasing fuel prices in mid June 2001, not only made the poor even poorer but also lowered the real wages of those who remained employed.

America s president is captive to the country s labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.

If this view is right, the solution is straightforward China can correct its imbalances by increasing its citizens incomes (by cutting taxes, raising wages, or increasing social spending), so that they can consume more, thereby reducing the economy s dependence on exports.

the methods in operation for determining rates of remuneration and the manner in which the application of the principle of equal remuneration is promoted and ensured in this respect.

Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages. If this is financed by cutbacks elsewhere in the budget, the main consequence will be only a re distribution of government spending, which is not necessarily inflationary.