It's just that virtually none of that additional money flowed through to raise wages.
But he may find it hard to raise wages by much without more radical reform.
We have exhausted our room to just raise wages into the teens again.
That, he argues, is a sign that his firm can raise wages without being undercut provided that quality improves as well.
To create private-sector jobs and raise wages for those now working, we must make America a magnet for investment from abroad.
Giving them the same legal rights as everyone else might actually raise wages in sectors such as construction, agriculture and hospitality.
Although he has declared his broad support for Mr Fujimori's free-market economic policies, he has also made populist promises to raise wages.
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He would also cut the employer's share of the payroll tax, with larger cuts for those who boost net payrolls or raise wages.
Furthermore, we find that English skills do not raise wages at all for younger men who have not completed their secondary school education.
Economists generally agree, for example, that legislating higher minimum wages can raise wages for a few while contributing to the unemployment of many.
If they put pressure on Foxconn to raise wages, well, I think we probably would see those wages rise, at least a little.
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Having already increased public sector wages, pensions, and subsidies, Putin pledged to increase spending on the military, health care, and raise wages this year.
When it comes to manufacturing, this has been highlighted by the recent Foxconn suicides and Honda strike, forcing management to raise wages by 30-60%.
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So we'll give tax breaks and loans to small business to help them hire new workers and raise wages and invest in new plants and equipment.
The impact of agreements to raise wages has yet to work its way into paychecks, and the second-quarter figures on wage rises are likely to be more alarming.
So I've proposed additional ideas to help small businesses start up and hire, to raise wages and expand, and to get the credit they need to stay afloat.
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Economists say he may be right, but they say without the millions of illegal immigrants, many employers in construction and other industries could afford to raise wages to attract American workers.
Over the long term, improving education is the most promising approach to raise wages, but the Gingrich campaign does not list education as a priority (in sharp contrast with Presidents Obama and Bush).
If the government can tell us how much to raise wages (or not) at every interval in order for living standards to be maintained, what do we need unions for, the conniving went.
But the really important argument against national pay scales is that in some parts of the country we want to raise wages substantially: for we cannot get the necessary people at those national rates on offer.
The story goes back at least as far as World War II, when industries, desperately competing for labor but unable to raise wages under wartime price controls, began offering health insurnace as a form of compensation exempt from wage restrictions.
That's why I've already proposed a new tax credit for more than 1 million small businesses that hire new workers or raise wages -- and a tax incentive for all businesses, large and small, to invest in new plants and equipment.
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How do you raise wages at the bottom to the point where you have a consumer economy without producing enormous pressure for democratization (something this five year plan has chosen to kick down to the road and which the Party elders still seem in denial about)?
But how did it raise the wages of people higher up the income range?
Mr Kerry said the "transformative" plan could also drastically reduce unemployment and raise average wages by some 40%.
It will not create any jobs, raise any wages, reduce the crushing debts of the middle class, slow the wave of foreclosures, conserve energy or reduce the price of gas.
And when immigrants working for low wages do put downward pressure on natives' wages, they may raise the (real) wages of natives in general by keeping prices lower than they otherwise would be.
Policies have focused on short-run changes and gimmicks recall cash for clunkers and first-time home buyer credits rather than on creating conditions that are favorable to investment that raise productivity and wages.
Bond-market troubles are forcing Greece's government to freeze public-sector wages and raise taxes, and causing Portugal's and Spain's to accelerate budget cuts.
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