Translation of "Wage hike" in German

Moreover, shorter work hours and a steep minimum wage hike are aggravating the employment situation further.

The wage hike abated with increasing privatisation, because private ownership meant that the employers' side incurred losses from excessive wage increases.

Hence, the ultimate cause for the disastrous wage hike was the institutional vacuum the government created in the East: wage bargaining without ownership responsibility and without a real threat of unemployment.

In its most extreme version, the argument goes that the driving force behind the wage hike came only from West German unions which were prepared to risk a mass destruction of East German employment in order to preserve their cartel power in the West (von Hagen 1997).

It has also been suggested that the wage hike helped Western unions to increase their membership in the East (Burda 1991).

Since young Europeans would rather work in a shop than a retirement home, persuading them otherwise would require a huge wage hike.

Although pleased by the wage hike that was the result of a strike by Palestinian harvest workers in the beginning of the year, she is disturbed by the fact that men still earn more than women for the same work.

In reality, the paltry wage hike is part of a staged publicity operation to boost Amazon's image and pacify a growing movement among workers demanding higher wages and an end to sweatshop working conditions.

In the end the minimum wage was hiked by mere 20 per cent, which is below the rate of inflation.

The current problem facing Abenomics, as it aims to save Japan’s economy from deflation, is that wage hikes have not kept pace with the April 2014 consumption-tax increase (from 5% to 8%) or the rise in import prices associated with a weaker yen.

Facing elections next year, the ruling Congress Party is spending the government’s time and money on subsidies for consumers, wage hikes for state employees, and debt relief for farmers.

Romania's government also took measures to reduce public discontent by reducing investments in heavy industry, boosting output of consumer goods, decentralizing economic management, hiking wages and incentives, and instituting elements of worker management.

The healthy state of the labour market (high employment coupled with a low unemployment rate), above-average wage hikes as well as real income gains thanks to lower mobility and energy costs all play a key role.

The two processes together could lead to a scenario where small and medium-sized companies are not destroyed by such wage and salary hikes, companies that incidentally could make an immense contribution to the sustainability of economic growth.

In order to cling to power during the national general strike that followed, Turkish president Özal had to rely on the support of the trade–union bureaucracy while granting a series of wage hikes.

These wage hikes were not as fast as those in Latvia (28 per cent percent in 2008) and Bulgaria (24 per cent percent in 2008), but already in 2006 they were growing twice as fast as the GNP.

In the past, decisions were often based on piece-part labor rates without consideration for high staff turnover rates, training costs and wage hikes, escalating shipping fees and overall coordination costs.

And just as little progress has been made in breaking with the vicious circle known as the 'model', in which higher charges on labour are the price that must be paid for financing social transfers to the growing number of those who have been excluded.... Germany, in contrast, shows that yesterday's fight for competitiveness is today's full employment and tomorrow's wage hikes.