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The government on Wednesday set a five-year goal of achieving annual inflation-adjusted wage growth of 1 percent across Japan through 60 trillion yen ($408 billion) in public-private investment aimed ...
“There’s absolutely no whiff of a wage price spiral in our economy and that’s because we’ve been getting these decent wages ...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's economic advisory panel recommended investment of $400 billion to boost productivity ...
Economist Saul Eslake says Australia’s productivity problem has been “pretty awful”. Wages have crept higher over the March quarter, rising 0.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 3.4 per cent over the ...
Growth in Aussie wages picked up ahead of economists’ expectations, but an expert warns that if productivity doesn’t also ...
Annual wages growth accelerated to 3.4 per cent in March as governments struck fresh pay deals, but economists warn they ...
The government will call on the public and private sectors to spend about ¥60 trillion in total over the five years.
Our empirical data looked at the effects of minimum wage increases across the U.S., where minimum wage laws differ from state ...
Defaulting on a student loan can carry harsh penalties, including having wages, tax refunds or Social Security checks garnished to repay the debt. Linda McMahon, the secretary of education ...
Productivity is tied to worker wages, so a drop can be cause for concern. Labor productivity in the U.S. dropped in the first ...
Swings in output and employment resulting from the tariff war will make it hard to gauge productivity, economists said.