Wage rates depend on levels of productivity.

工资水平取决于生产量的多寡。

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So, in the absence of big increases in productivity, wage cuts may be less avoidable.

因此，在生产率没有增长的情况下，减薪并不是那么的难以接受。

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This is largely due to a steady rise in unit Labour costs, as wage increases outstripped productivity growth (see chart).

这很大程度上是因为国内单位劳动成本的稳步上升，工资的增长超过了生产力的增长(见图表)。

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We are not addressing the high valued added skill gap in the US. So, we are not providing high wage, high productivity, high valued added jobs, especially in the engineering and IT industries.

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

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Italy, unable to reform, has made a virtue of a low-wage, low-productivity economy, with little social mobility, a choice given respectability by the preaching of a complacently anti-capitalist Church.

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