Competition from emerging economies should also help to spur rich-world productivity growth and thus average incomes.
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Average incomes have fallen in large part because earnings across the economy have fallen.
Even if average incomes remain low, a growing number of Chinese will enjoy high incomes.
Ray Fair, a Yale economist, predicts election results using a measure of inflation and growth in average incomes.
It prompted the TUC to claim that average train fares had risen nearly three times faster than average incomes since 2008.
Despite the "colossal challenge" of the 2007-08 global financial crisis, average incomes had risen in Russia, Mr Putin said.
According to Angus Maddison, an economic historian, in 1950 average incomes in western Europe were 54% of American ones.
In America, 65% of people on average incomes can afford a median-price house.
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In Qatar, average incomes have grown 50-fold since 1960, and average wealth 200-fold.
Average incomes in China have risen tenfold since the current pricing and subsidy regime was put in place in 1982.
Average home prices rose by 19% last year, pushing prices to record levels in relation to both average incomes and rents.
Under the previous model of condensed repayment cycles, the loans had very little impact on the average incomes of the poor.
Yet in America and Britain, among other countries, house prices are already close to record levels in relation to average incomes.
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In other nations, by contrast, the top tax rates take effect much faster, in some cases when taxpayers have just average incomes.
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But at those well-above national average incomes, the shipping companies and port operators are already inclined to automate more of their operations.
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To support his idea that density is good, Avent points out that average incomes in the San Francisco Bay Area are very high.
But at a time of mass unemployment, it looks like a pretty good tradeoff that should raise per capita output and average incomes.
Partly as a consequence, house prices are sharply lower in the north than in the south, even after accounting for lower average incomes.
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In a paper in 2002, Branko Milanovic and Shlomo Yitzaki used the average incomes of Brazil and Italy as the respective floor and ceiling.
Average incomes have now grown slowly for the past four years.
Private rents in 2006 were two-thirds the cost of a 100% mortgage on a two- or three-bedroom house, for a young household on average incomes.
By this time, average incomes were 40% lower than in 1971.
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Quite to the contrary, Census reports that in 2011 the average incomes of the top 20% of income earners rose, while incomes for the bottom 80%, declined.
The Lib Dems, who want to lower the basic rate of income tax, said the plans would only result in a marginal saving for people on average incomes.
And with 1.3 billion Chinese people, whose average incomes have quadrupled in the last four years, it's small wonder that for the time being, Hanting is concentrating on the local market.
Americans on below-average incomes are much less likely than well-off ones to have university degrees, but of those among them who join large public-interest advocacy groups, at least three-quarters are graduates.
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Britain's Pensions Commission has used a net replacement rate of 80% for workers on average incomes as a rough guide to whether they will have enough to live on in retirement.
Most are white males reporting above-average incomes.
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They select locations in areas with high average incomes.
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In the UK yesterday the Institute for Fiscal Studies said average incomes will not rise before 2015 and even then will rise only slowly (probably only to be eroded by inflation).
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