Sentences with phrase «of wage pressures»

Our analysis shows that wage growth, as estimated by our composite measure of wage pressures, is beginning to accelerate; we also show that labor market indicators most closely correlated with wage growth, such as the quit rate, continue to improve.

More recently, wage growth has shown signs of stabilisation, with growth in the private sector wage price index unchanged for the past six quarters, while a broader measure of wage pressures, the growth in average earnings per hour, has picked up of late.

These conditions increase the likelihood of wage pressures building beyond what is factored into the inflation forecast.

The Reserve Bank of Australia said it saw signs of wage pressures in the economy, setting the stage for a rate hike later this year, says Paul Bloxham of HSBC.

You may see inflation remain below target, you may see a lack of wage pressures, and you could be in a relatively steady state like that for some time possibly.

NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday as the U.S. bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage pressure.

Although most indicators of wage pressure remained firm in the September quarter, there was only limited evidence to suggest that these pressures were gaining economy - wide momentum.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Not exact matches

One of my favorite statistics is pointed out by Jason Benderly, who suggests that households headed by a male adult with spouse present is a sector whose unemployment rate can be most consistently used to determine when wage pressure is beginning to rise.

We should not fear but rather embrace upward wage pressures as a positive development that raises the standard of living for Canadians.

«At a time when persistent high unemployment is putting enormous downward pressure on wages, such a minimum - wage increase would provide a much - needed boost to the earnings of low - wage workers,» EPI noted in a joint letter addressed to House and Senate leadership.

Vanguard says investors should pay more attention to low unemployment rates than GDP growth at this stage of the cycle for prospects of either higher spending for capital expenditures or wage pressures.

Foxconn, meanwhile, has responded to the issue by hiking employee pay by 30 %, which the CEOs see as both an appropriate response to the company's mistreatment of its workers, and a sign of further wage pressures in China.

The Fed's traditional models dictate that falling unemployment will quickly generate upward wage pressures and increase the pricing power of firms.

The new health care legislation has added an additional layer of complexity, so what will imposing pressure to raise the hourly minimum wage bring?

In a legal filing on Monday, ETP asked a judge to grant the permit, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in its decision, responded to «political pressure and an escalating campaign of violence and disorder waged by protesters» against the project.

But it has shown several years of strong wage growth, and demand for qualified candidates is growing, which should put upward pressure on salaries in the coming years.

The stock market opened way down, continuing last Friday's selloff, though it has climbed back since the open — implying the return of volatility — as skittish investors continue to fear the sequence I describe in this AM's WaPo: tight labor market, wage pressures, higher interest rates, inflation, lower profit margins.

Despite heavy spending by a handful of top universities for the most talented, grant - winning researchers, most schools aren't seeing big wage pressures, largely because teaching jobs are in high demand.

Even that doesn't adequately describe a bill that would end the Diversity Lottery, effectively eliminating any diversity, expand exploited labor instead of just expanding immigration, and continue to subject certain sectors of the economy to downward wage pressure (specifically STEM or IT), ignoring the cumulative ripple effect on every sector's wage.

The slowdown in job growth and the absence of any significant wage pressure could strengthen the arguments of those who see little risk in keeping borrowing costs exceptionally low and waiting not just for more encouraging data but also for unruly markets to settle down.

When critics like Brian Riedl, the campaign economist for the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, fret that offering everyone a good job will lead to «pressure to introduce a higher wage or certain benefits that the private sector doesn't offer,» proponents say: Yeah, it will; that's exactly the point.

Core inflation remains a steady bit less than 2 %, and wages were thus climbing only.5 % on their own power of traditional wage pressure.

From my perspective, that look would tell them several things: 1) the U.S. economy is in recession, 2) the combination of weak producer prices and rising wage and benefits costs means that profit margins continue to be under pressure.

That said, there are wage and inflationary pressures slowly building in pockets of the labor market.

We have seen in our own case how liberalisation of financial markets has led to pressures to liberalise product markets (through ongoing tariff reductions and other forms), to bring more competition in the provision of infrastructures (such as transport, communications and power generation), and to free up the labour market (through, for example, enterprise - based wage bargaining).

However, given the weakness in the bargaining power of so many in the workforce, along with some anxiety about price pressures from wage - push inflation, such evidence must be scrutinized.

Pockets of weakness persist for some less advantaged groups and in some parts of the country, a point Chair Yellen herself recently made, and even nationally, there's not all that much wage pressure.

If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

Additionally, while average hourly earnings (AHE) still appeared sluggish in April's payroll report, there are other indicators of growing wage pressure.

A slowly rising rate cycle in the face of full employment and modest wage pressure isn't the worst environment for fixed income.

Companies are still very focused on currency trends that are impacting their business as well as on margin pressures — whether it's cost inflation through wage growth or price deflation and the compressing of margins.

The stronger yen has been threatening weaker profits for exporters, leading to downward pressure on wage negotiations typically conducted in spring ahead of the new fiscal year starting in April.

Also, while labor markets were described as tight, the majority of Districts reported only modest - to - moderate wage pressures.

Because of that, wage pressures should be exploding right now.

Given these conditions, a key issue for the Australian economy will be the extent to which the ongoing growth of demand might give rise to capacity constraints and, consequently, upward pressure on wage and price inflation.

It is possible, against a background of increasing inflation and a strengthening labour market, that the survey is signalling some pick - up in underlying wage pressures, but at this stage the extent of any such pick - up is difficult to assess.

The pick - up in the WCI data in the second half of 2003 partly reflected the spreading out of increases in wage pressures to a broader range of industries, after having been concentrated in public - sector and related industries earlier in the year (Table 17).

The jobs data will be scrutinized closely for more clues about wage pressures and signs of inflation.

CITI: Given continued soft inflation readings, average hourly earnings (AHE) remains the focus of the payrolls report as markets look for evidence that wage pressures are building.

Also, the need for interest rates to rise will be lessened to the extent that inflation expectations remain well anchored and wage pressures in stronger parts of the economy do not spill over to other parts.

An influx of 50,000 Amazon workers could force more lower - wage and middle - income workers from the city and put more pressure on housing prices and congested roadways.

In a scenario with a reasonably benign world environment, these factors could see a strengthening of demand pressures and hence upward pressure on wage and price inflation.

As I sifted through the Beige Book to see which areas of the economy were posting upward wage pressures and growing skilled labour shortages I could see a large swath — Technology, Construction, Transportation Services, Restaurants, Durable Goods Manufacturing.

The pressure on profitability reflects a combination of rising wage costs and flat selling prices, which continue to be constrained in many parts of the manufacturing sector by strong international competition.

While overall wage costs remain contained at present, despite pressures in particular sectors, ongoing strength in demand would pose an increasing risk of acceleration of costs over time.

Labour markets are showing increasing evidence of an easing in wage pressures, and recent declines in business confidence may prompt a tougher stance by businesses in wage negotiations.

Consequently, there may be greater labour cost pressures than are evident in narrower official wage measures which do not capture these forms of payment.

But what they really want to see is increase in wage pressures and increase in growth and we started to see that, some of it is in relation to the job or to the tax reform.