If workers insist on higher cash wages to maintain their spending power, firms' costs will take an additional hit, resulting in lay-offs, higher unemployment and depressed demand.

如果工人为了维持消费能力，要求增加工资的话，公司的生产费用将进一步受到影响，这将导致解雇工人，高失业率，这会进一步减少需求。

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The resulting upward pressure on wages is forcing mainland companies to upgrade to higher-value products, as Japan did in the 1960s and ’70s.

由此产生对于工资上涨的压力，使得大陆的企业升级以生产高附加值的产品，就像日本1960年至1970年所经历的一样。

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Rarely did a summer pass without a teachers' strike or threat of a walkout, invariably followed by a surrender by the city, resulting in higher wages or more permissive work rules.

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This would provide a continuing gusher of new savings for capital investment, resulting in more jobs and higher wages.

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That sharply increases incentives for all of the above productive activities, resulting in more of them, and more jobs, higher wages, and faster economic growth.

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