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

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

Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.

Determination of wages.

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.

During the period of 1998 2000 the wages of women constituted 72.7 of the wages of men.

Consider the recent standby arrangement with Latvia, whose conditions include a massive 25 cut in public sector wages, a similar reduction in government expenditures, and a huge tax increase.

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

Because they had the sense that declining wages are worse than rising wages, even when the total amount of wages is higher in the declining period. Here's another nice example.

4.4 Elimination of gender disparity in wages.

Russians prefer lower wages or simply waiting with no wages at all to moving in search of a new job.

Scarce labor drives wages.

In 2004, women's average wages in Part I of the New Brunswick Public Service represented 98.1 percent of wages earned by men.

Convention concerning the Protection of Wages (No. 95)

Consequently, wages are market sustainable.

Part of the problem is the emergence of China, whose ultra low wages provide tough competition for Mexico, where wages are merely very low.

But this is not true. Budget discipline will work only insofar as it drives the country into a depression and induces a real devaluation through a reduction in wages and prices, which is option two.

The government could have started by bringing together employers and unions to negotiate an equitable burden sharing agreement, including an across the board reduction in wages and pensions, thereby getting a jump on internal devaluation.

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.

Appalling wages are just the start.

In 2012, wages were estimated at about 160 per month, about one fifth of the South Korean minimum wage, and about a quarter of typical Chinese wages.

For most citizens, wages are the only source of income.

Moreover, Chinese wages have been rising rapidly.

The difference in wages shall be compensated.

Throughout modern history, industrialization has been the most effective driver of structural poverty reduction, owing to its capacity to expand employment opportunities, boost productivity, and increase wages. No developing country has achieved the economic growth necessary to become a developed country without industrializing.

But the goal of global poverty reduction has imposed a burden of extra work on people in rich countries, both through the commitment to foreign aid and, more importantly, through globalization, which increases job insecurity and, particularly for the less skilled, holds down wages.

I said to them, If you think it best, give me my wages and if not, keep them. So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

As a result, wages were cut by half.

The FFP has not only lifted workers wages.

Data on wages and salaries classified by gender.

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.

Wages are already falling under the weight of extremely high unemployment rates.

Consumer spending is particularly robust, as wages show signs of upward movement.

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

Reduction of military budgets

Reduction of military budgets

C. Reduction of hunger

Reduction of military budgets

Reduction of military budgets

Will Phillips s work on wages gave them no choice.

Wages rose rapidly and most Germans experienced growing prosperity.

These are efficient responses to changes in real wages.

And the fact that higher wages in Germany will be matched by lower wages across southern Europe suggests that continent wide inflationary pressures will remain subdued.

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

Currently their nominal wages are only about 7 of the West European average.