Wages

The global energy transition is an example of a system that intersects a number of these issues: the limits of the planetary systems and the planetary boundaries we have come …

Since mining jobs often offer relatively higher wages, particularly in the private sector, shutting down …

The final report of The Economy 2030 Inquiry The UK has great strengths, but is a decade and a half into a period of stagnation. The toxic combination of slow …

central in underpinning social contracts. Rising wages, higher employment and the security of the welfare … have all helped deliver this in the past. Real wages nearly quadrupled, while state spending on healthcare … fed directly into flatlining wages and sluggish income growth: real wages grew by an average of 33 per … this fell to below zero in the 2010s. In mid-2023 wages were back where they were during the financial … economy While Britons have been living with stagnant wages for the last 15 years, high inequality has been …

Stormy-Annika Mildn December 2023 From the Corn Belt to the Kornkammer: A Comparison of Agriculture in the United States and in Germany Examining the intricate dynamics of agriculture in Germany …

Income, 2023. 73 Ibid. 9 Aspen Institute Germany (wages and salaries) and passive income Agricultural Census …

The Lao PDR is facing unprecedented macroeconomic challenges, which jeopardize hard-won development gains. Over the past two decades, the country attracted considerable foreign investment and fostered regional integration, which contributed …

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VISIONS OF INEQUALITY From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War Branko Milanovic Belknap Press Cambridge, MA, 2023, 368 pp., $32.95 Rising economic inequality in many countries, …

functional distribution of income—rents, profits, wages. Pareto framed inequality in terms of a social … relative stagnation of pro- ductivity and real wages. A task for eco- nomic policy, therefore, is to …

How will the world’s developing cities become vibrant—capable of meeting the climate, social, and economic challenges of tomorrow? Vibrant cities offer firms and households high expectations for good returns on …

And 14 VIBRANT CITIES in Sub- Saharan Africa, wages for urban tradables workers often are not internationally … urban labor markets — because today’s high nominal wages in developing country cities reflect congestion … LABOR PRODUCTIVITY High costs and high nominal wages make developing cities less able to compete in global … dynamics. In developing country cities, high nominal wages are often needed to overcome high urban costs from … 1). Rather than reflecting productivity, these wages trap developing country cities into nontradable …

Bob Simison profiles Harvard’s Lawrence F. Katz, whose research changed economists’ understanding of economic disparity Like the rest of us, Harvard labor economist Lawrence F. Katz has been thinking about …

creating new jobs. It takes more than a decade for wages to return to normal. “We found very solid patterns … Chicago’s Kevin Murphy analyzed changes in US wages from 1963 to 1987, tapping into a vast Census … on the history of education and its impact on wages, she says. “Larry was obsessed with changes in …

Some workers will win, others will lose as the use of artificial intelligence grows Technological developments—such as factory robots, smart home devices, and self-driving cars—transform the way we live and …

Murphy (1992) explained the evolution of relative wages in the United States as the outcome of a race between … different types of workers and ulti- mately determines wages and overall productivity. Acemoglu and Restrepo … to automation explains most changes in relative wages—without much of a role for skill-based technological … and K. M. Murphy. 1992. “Changes in Relative Wages, 1963–1987: Supply and Demand Factors.” Quar- terly …

My Journeys in Economic Theory Edmund Phelps Columbia University Press New York, NY, 2023, 248 pp., $27.95 Among the early graduate school memories of many macroeconomists are the “golden rule” …

relative stagnation of pro- ductivity and real wages. A task for eco- nomic policy, therefore, is to …

A study of 100 inflation shocks since the 1970s provides valuable pointers for policymakers today In the early 1970s, conflict in the Middle East set off a spike in oil …

require close attention. In many countries, workers’ wages have fallen in real infla- tion-adjusted terms and … Importantly, this did not translate into lower real wages and a loss of purchasing power, because lower nominal … icymakers here is to remain focused on real wages, not nominal wages, when responding to develop- ments in …