Opponents of this increase have argued that the resulting rise in wages will drive the inflation rate up.

反对加薪的人认为，由此导致的工资上涨将推高通货膨胀率。

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Then, too, as the supply of youthful workers shrinks, wages should rise and push up the rate of inflation and the cost of capital.

随之而来的将是年轻劳工供给的收缩，劳动报酬势必因此而增加，并因此提高通胀率和资本成本。

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Wages are still rising at a rate roughly twice the euro zone's average and well ahead of productivity growth.

工资仍然以约两倍于欧元区平均水平并夸张地高于生产力增长的速度在抬高。

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Politicians are not going to adopt a system that taxes the wages of the rich at a lower rate than the wages of blue-collar workers.

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Employers, who normally share with the worker welfare costs amounting to nearly 42% of gross wages, would pay a flat-rate contribution of 25% on jobs up to euro400, reduced to 12% for mini-jobs (cleaners and au pairs, for example) in private households.

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Another way of putting it is that a flexible exchange rate makes sticky internal prices and wages flexible to the rest of the world.

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