wage restraint
noun[CorU]
ECONOMICSukus(alsopay restraint)theactofreducingtherateofincreasein theamountthatworkersearn, or something that is done toachievethisreduction:
Economistspredictwagerestraintwillkeepinflationlowfor sometime.
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It anticipated some form of understanding between government and unions aboutwagerestraint.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However he decided to extend hiswagerestraintpolicy for another year hoping that the economy would be in a better shape for a 1979 election.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In exchange forwagerestraintand an increase in the social wage the trade union movement agreed to support economic reform and oppose industrial conflict (i.e. strikes).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Concomitant with the union repression andwagerestraint, economic policy has gone through two phases: first, liberal, which sought to break with previous forms of intervention in the economy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Conversely, accommodating monetary regimes are compatible with realwagerestraintand full employment in centralized bargaining systems, while they encourage wage-price militancy in decentralized ones.
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Egalitarianwagerestraintmeans passing up opportunities to raise wages in highly profitable firms and sectors.
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In the area of labor relations, decentralization of collective bargaining andwagerestraintreduced the power of the unions.
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It stood for the needs of workers caught up in the requirements of incomes policy andwagerestraint.
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The policy of wage compression, called solidaristic wage policy, includedwagerestraint.
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The problem of achieving realwagerestraintin (intermediately) centralized systems can therefore be reduced to a problem of providing disincentives for nominal wage militancy.
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