They increased people's purchasing power and thus made it possible to limit increases in wages.
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To summarize, faster growth in wages and salaries is a trim tab for stock prices.
It said increases in wages, lower ticket sales and restructuring costs all contributed to the loss.
In fact, public employees had already agreed to sharp cuts in wages and benefits.
The increase in wages for laborers outpaced inflation, which contributes to the stability of society.
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The cash-strapped government, which owes billions of dollars in wages and pensions, hopes that they will.
After that a new link would be introduced between benefit payments and increases in wages.
That is, that the employees lose in wages more than the revenue raised by the tax.
Deflation is a prolonged drop in wages, prices and the value of assets like stocks and houses.
So a 3.2% nominal growth rate in wages and salaries translates into virtually no growth after inflation.
More money in the system just means more money being offered in wages to those best footballers.
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This comes after 20% cuts across the board in the public sector, with matching reductions in wages.
In one, the labor supply for jobs with physical skills increases and leads to a drop in wages.
However, inflation everywhere else is subdued and inflation in wages is virtually nonexistent.
But who will pay for those new jobs and increases in wages and benefits without swelling the public deficit?
Chancellor Gordon Brown has cautioned workers not to demand large pay rises, as a jump in wages heightens inflation fears.
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In less troubled times, the marked acceleration in wages and salaries in the first quarter would soon push up spending.
Labour unions fear a downward drive in wages, while some of the more right-wing Republicans argue only for tougher border security.
This increase in wages, coupled with rising energy and logistics costs, have dramatically reduced the incentives for companies to manufacture abroad.
There is a very real danger that the Italians - like the Greeks - will resist cuts in wages and benefits.
We are not, by paying the workers more in wages, adding to either the current or future productivity of the company.
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Because GDP is the measure of everything that is produced that is then shared out in wages and profits and so on.
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The struggling companies will demand big concessions in wages and health care.
This gap in representation is equally matched by a gap in wages.
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That the workers lose more in wages as a result of investments not made than the government gains in corporate tax revenues.
But the Bank of England has said that any increase above 4.5% in wages is incompatible with its inflation target of 2.5%.
That would keep benefits in inflationary periods from racing far ahead of tax collections, which are keyed to the rise in wages.
They want an increase in wages for people at the lower end of the pay spectrum that doesn't cost anyone any money.
Manager Liam Daish, the Fleet board and the club's accountant revealed that the pair take up almost half the annual budget in wages.
No way, cried the flight attendants union, which was in the process of persuading 420 members to accept deep cuts in wages and benefits.
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