wage growth

So, we expect that the second part of the year will not be very good in terms of wage growth.

The country's external competitiveness can be improved by holding real wage growth below that of other trading countries.

Wage growth must at least keep pace with productivity growth; interest rates must rise substantially; and the currency must be revalued.

That said, the process is fraught with some risks. First of all, the stagnant wage growth was not limited to Foxconn and Honda.

In fact, wage growth actually seems to be slowing, thanks to the weakness of the job market.

Some central bankers argue that there is nothing to worry about as long as wage growth remains tame.

Higher-than-usual unemployment and erratic wage growth make it hard to find that kind of money.

Nominal wage growth of 3% a year further undermined competitiveness.

Higher wage growth would have two great advantages for China and for the rest of the world.

But wage pressures were described as "contained" and an abundance of workers was keeping wage growth down, the Fed said.

In Germany, where earnings data are rather more erratic, wage growth does appear to be rising, but from a lower base.

In the meantime, coastal companies are suffering from higher costs, including wage growth as well as rising expenses for raw materials.

Exchange rate appreciation and money wage growth are substitutes in the long term.

With employment and wage growth strong, consumers are unlikely to stop spending and throw the economy into recession.

Real wage growth remains strong, despite the macro deceleration, and that in turn means consumption has held up pretty well.

Virtually every measure of wage growth has been accelerating, although increases in productivity have been lacklustre.

"It's a good thing for the world and for China if you do see wage growth outstrip productivity growth going forward, " Buchanan said.

He reckons that nominal wage growth has hit 18% a year, domestic demand is rising by as much as 25% and credit growth is some 30-40%.

Food inflation far in excess of wage growth translates to a dramatic fall in their standard of living.

CONS: Lagging wage growth, blighted downtown in the midst of a stop-and-go redevelopment.

But wage growth is stagnant and home prices, which underpin much of the debt problem, are still falling.

Ashenfelter comes up with a clever way to measure wage growth, or purchasing power parity, across the globe.

For a long time, wage growth has lagged behind economic growth, and that has forced China to continue to depend on exports.

That control enables unscrupulous employers to deliberately pit one group of workers against another to depress wage growth.

Total hours worked are falling sharply and resilient wage growth could also weaken, resulting in ongoing declines in labour income.

While the housing market is slowing more rapidly than expected, consumption has not weakened, buoyed as it is by jobs and wage growth.

Some parts of the world saw explosive wage growth, while others saw nothing, or worse.

Competition has not only provided incentives for manufacturers to raise productivity, but helped contain wage growth.

Rapid productivity gains and tepid wage growth have meant relatively fat profits for the corporate sector.

Structural reforms were delayed, while wage growth relative to productivity growth diverged.

They must instead impose appropriate local policies towards wage growth, taxation and public spending.

rising rates of profit and falling rates of wage growth suggest employers, not workers, have the power in almost every market.

Stronger wage growth and high commodity prices have squeezed profits, and export order books are suddenly thinner.

The final result shows that average wage growth rate is the major affecting factor of minium wages adjustment mechanism.

Consumers are also more cautious about borrowing in view of sluggish wage growth and rising unemployment in most of the developed world.

Opportunities have been less good, wage growth has been less good, the recession has been more damaging.

Perhaps just as important, there's evidence that matching actual skills to a job choice is key in determining wages and wage growth.

Were inflation to outstrip wage growth, it could have the perverse effect of shrinking demand.

First, countries with higher growth have higher rate of real wage growth, which makes the real exchange rate grow faster.

College Station has also seen steady wage growth and a low unemployment rate of 6. 9%.

Total hoursworkedare falling sharply and resilient wage growth could also weaken, resulting in ongoing declines in labour income.

Spending power is scarce. Wage growth is running at less than half the level of inflation.

Wage growth and inflation expectations are docile; nominal demand is barely growing.

faster wage growth would boost domestic demand and help to reorient Germany's economy (see article).

Yet wage growth has been stagnating even as gasoline and medical costs rise, putting pressure on household finances.

Payroll contributions, their main source of revenue, are being squeezed by low wage growth and rising inequality.

Profit margins are under pressure from high oil prices and, latterly, from a pickup in wage growth.

Slack in labour markets from rising unemployment will control labour costs and wage growth.

But their deeper problem stems from a decade when wage growth ran far ahead of productivity gains.

Share prices have fallen nearly 60 per cent over the past year and local property markets are now taking a dive. Wage growth has moderated.

That's because wage growth is part of the rebalancing that both the Chinese government and the rest of the world is calling for.

and faster real-wage growth also suggested that demand for labour was outpacing supply.

PROS: Great public schools geared toward college prep, high average family income, solid wage growth, 67 nearby parks.

Government economists, too, are urging China to pay more attention to wage growth than to the headline-grabbing official 8% growth target.

Estimates differ but many suggest this would require a 30 per cent wage cut followed by permanently slower wage growth than in Germany.

Wage growth is running at less than half the level of inflation.

And while overall wage growth is a solid 4. 1 percent over the past 12 months, economists say the increases are mostly for the top earners.

This leaves wage growth, and here the story is also unambiguous, but unambiguous in the other direction.

France's wage growth has kept up with productivity and inflation.

Those are very different paths, suggesting different kinds of recovery and different impacts on things like wage growth.

The entire bottom 80 percent now loses a collective $743 billion each year, thanks to the cumulative effect of slow wage growth.

In the US and France average annual wage growth is trending down slowly.

Nor should Beijing try to slow wage growth.

That may be happening in America, where hourly wage growth is well below inflation; the brunt of the oil shock has been borne by workers.

Rapid wage growth and low debt make consumers more robust.

Japan reported its slowest wage growth of the year, indicating pay rose 0. 3 per cent in July.

They aren't indexed in line with inflation or wage growth.

In many sectors, annual wage growth is running at 15% or more.

Meanwhile, wage growth for many in the middle has stalled.

Germany also placed limits on wage growth.

'We need real wage growth to power the economy and it's very weak right now. '

The earnings and wage growth in the fourth quarter slowed down as a result.

Wage growth is moderate everywhere, in spite of tight labour markets.

That implies the need to keep the lid on deficits and wage growth.

Wage growth also has been flat under Mr. Ma.

Yet the picture on wage growth is not entirely reflected in job numbers.

After all, inflation at 1% and wage growth at 2% were exceptionally low in 2010 and will probably remain so in 2011.

In order to continuously improve the farmers wage growth.

Mr Pettis believes there is a growing divergence between productivity growth and wage growth in China.

The third, lagging wage growth, has gotten much better and so has contributed to Chinese rebalancing.

Money is easy again, but unemployment is far higher and wage growth slower than at any time during the 2001 recession.

Wage growth has been weak, running below 1% in the euro zone and at around 2% in America and Britain.

The external ones are consumer price index (CPI), the industry average wage growth rate, and government macro-control policies;

The workers'average wage growth tilts organs and units, and the state-owned economic units;

Which was most severe in Japan, the actual average wage growth in 2008 and 2009 was -1. 9% for two consecutive years.

Figure 2 Shanghai Total Retail Sales Growth in Volume, Real Wage Growth and Rental Growth

The Model of Efficiency Wage and the Efficiency Wage Growth