Tom complained about his low salary.

How many workers in Mexico must subsist on this kind of pay?

He plotted the overall strategy of the war, in cooperation with Congress.

Now they want to strike because they have no salaries.

Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages.

Moreover, the government has modestly reduced taxes on wages and slightly scaled down the generosity of some benefits.

There are other families throughout the world that could buy that wheat farm with one day s wages.

Lowering the tax burden on firms including the payroll tax would also be useful.

That rule reduces income and payroll taxes by more than 200 billion.

When a positive technological shock raises real wages, people will work more, causing output to surge.

Children, of course, are unlikely to organize or complain to authorities when they are overworked and underpaid. They are not aware of their legal rights.

But the most important part of the deal to avert the fiscal cliff was the restoration of the efficient payroll tax.

As a result, it will take longer for demand to feed through to wages and inflation than in the past.

There is little that government can do in a market economy to force down wages in the private sector.

When a positive technological shock raises real wages, people will work more, causing output to surge.

If you want your workers to be happy, you need to pay them a decent wage.

Companies cannot compete with firms that pay much lower wage rates on neighboring islands.

As they spend their wages, they increase demand for people to produce the goods and services that they consume.

Between November 2002 and January 2003, she lived abroad while on the payroll as an assistant of the VVD.

These numbers do not reflect purchasing power, but the Russian middle class measure their salaries in dollars.

With such wage subsidies, competitive forces would cause employers to hire more workers, and the resulting fall in unemployment would cause most of the subsidy to be paid out as direct or indirect labor compensation.

The higher the wage cost, the lower the subsidy, until it has tapered off to zero.

The payroll tax paid by employees is 6.65 (employers pay the same rate), and is in addition to the personal income tax.

Quality makes exporters less vulnerable to changes in price including those driven by rising wages.

These higher wage costs are not showing up yet in overall inflation because of the countervailing impact of energy prices and import costs.

The increased spending leads to higher employment, an increase in capacity utilization, and, eventually, upward pressure on wages and prices.

The center left s ponderous electoral program proposes a cut of five percentage points in payroll taxes, but it is not clear where the required 10 billion will come from to pay for this.

Minimum wage increases, for example, counteract income tax credits and lower payroll taxes aimed at encouraging youth employment.

Nor does it undercut wages, since most Europeans do not want these jobs.

The reduction in real incomes caused by the VAT increase could be offset by a combination of reduced personal income taxes, reduced payroll taxes, and increased transfers.

Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai raised their minimum wages sharply in the last three years by 22 on average in 2010 and 2011.

We now have less than full employment in the sense that the payroll tax encourages older workers to work fewer hours than they otherwise would.

The immigrant receives a higher wage than at home, and the target country benefits from cheap labor, which creates more value than it costs.

The eurozone s southern European members must reduce their wage costs to claw back the competitiveness that they have lost since adopting the common currency.

This serious revenue boost was not counted in standard reports, because the payroll tax holiday for 2011 2012 had always been treated legally as temporary.

The best remedy is a subsidy for low wage employment, paid to employers for every full time low wage worker they hire and calibrated to the employee s wage cost to the firm. The higher the wage cost, the lower the subsidy, until it has tapered off to zero.

The best remedy is a subsidy for low wage employment, paid to employers for every full time low wage worker they hire and calibrated to the employee s wage cost to the firm.

BRUSSELS The President of the European Central Bank is said to show at each meeting of the European Council a graph depicting the evolution of relative wage costs across the eurozone s 16 member countries.

And this amount partly reflects the fact that employed people who collect Social Security and Medicare are subject to the payroll tax that finances them.

Unfortunately, harmonization would probably apply to wage replacement payments, implying uniform minimum wage constraints for EU countries.

For example, we can choose how much to collect via a general income tax, a payroll tax, a consumption tax (such as a sales or value added tax), and so on.

But the collection of payroll taxes from tens of millions of workers and the writing of tens of millions of pension checks is the kind of routine, semi automatic task that government can do well.

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Therefore, cutting the payroll tax rate in 2011 2012 and making the rate schedule more graduated (on the Medicare side) were mistakes from the standpoint of efficient taxation.

The power to tax is thought to make government debt safer private borrowers have no right to the profits or wages that they need to satisfy their obligations.