Translation of "Sinkende löhne" in English

The results were falling wages, unemployment and a sharp rise in the poverty rate.

If recession drags on and Americans continue to blame trade agreements – erroneously – for growing unemployment, falling wages, and yawning inequality, opposition to these deals will grow.

Indeed, it often seems that workers, who have seen their wages fall and jobs disappear, are just collateral damage – innocent but unavoidable victims in the inexorable march of economic progress.

Women are particularly hard hit by the worsening social situation: high unemployment, loss of skills, lower wages, seasonal work and scanty social benefits.

Privatization may help the stabilization programme by in creasing production, absorbing a part of the financial assets of the population and by partly compensating for the lower ing of wages by dividend payments.

Whereas enrolments increased noticeably during the 1970s, this increase came to a halt in the early 1980s, reflecting declining wage premia for higher education graduates in the second half of the 1970s.

If slowing of economic growth does not negatively affect the expectations of the population, the Lithuanian residential market should remain quite active, supported by rising wages, decreasing unemployment and high affordability of housing.

"Drastic austerity policies in Europe and the lack of effective social governance have caused mass unemployment, falling wages, cuts in social protection and growing poverty and social exclusion, with a whole generation of young people in despair.

Falling wages and growing public assistance for the working poor constitute another aspect of redistribution in favour of capital.

A real depreciation through shrinking wages, which will make income losses of 20 to 30 per cent necessary in southern Europe – even in France – will lead to disaster, as we can already see in Spain, Greece and Portugal.

The increase in competition among workers has disastrous consequences for their conditions of employment (always shorter and more fragmented contracts) for their remuneration (wages decreasing), and for their power to negotiate with the enterprises.

Opposition among auto workers to plant closings, declining wages and work conditions is part of resurgence of class struggle throughout the United States and internationally;

A real depreciation through shrinking wages, which will make income losses of 20 to 30 per cent necessary in southern Europe – even in France – will lead to disaster, as we can already see in Spain, Greece and Portugal.

Tens of thousands of teachers throughout the country are fighting against declining wages, rising health care costs and the consequences of decades of budget cuts and austerity overseen by the Democrats and Republicans.

But it would not require falling wages or significant price deflation: annual wage growth of 1.7% and productivity growth of 2% would be compatible with inflation close to zero.

The only open question remains who or what they would then be holding responsible...What is hardly ever considered in the current debate about downloads and file sharing is how the two universal shifts reflect in the economic framework: decreasing wages and an increase in precarious employment relationships tighten the money which is available to be spent on cultural goods by the individual.

So it is that falling wages for the bottom 10% of the income scale has reduced family incomes in Germany by 23%.

And the flipside of the decline in wage and salaries – a steep rise in the proportion of national income accounted for by corporate profits – has not resulted in booming investment.

On the question of how a future liberalisation of the internal market in services would impinge on wages, 50% expected them to fall, 43% to rise and 7% envisaged no notable effect or said it would depend on the sector.

Unit labour costs decreased in 2013 in some of the euro area’s periphery countries, particularly Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Ireland, as wages fell.

When there is a shortage of cap ital for entrepreneurs, demand for labour becomes much less sensitive to the level of wages, since no matter how low wages drop, entrepreneurs will not be able to create business in the first place.