Higher Incomes News Today

Jim Stanford looks at where Australia ranks in the listing of countries, including Canada, of income redistribution through taxation, as measured by OECD.

Research shows white collar workers, including managers and executives, prefer to work from home but employers now face remote accommodation and inequities.

Flower growers in Hanoi earn higher incomes thanks to the use of advanced technologies in their cultivation activities to boost the blooms and generate new revenue streams.

BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Migrant workers from China rural areas enjoyed higher incomes and better living conditions in 2022, official data showed Friday. I

Labor shortages continue to harm the U.S. economy, adding to ongoing inflation, increasing the risks of an economic down, and exacerbating the federal government’s irrefutably unsustainable fiscal outlook. This Backgrounder examines the current U.S. labor market by diving deeper into the employment trends among different groups of workers with data through March 2023.

BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- China economic landscape has been reshaped over the past decade. From higher incomes to carbon-conscious policies to wider opening

Toggle open close Increasing living standards depends on increasing worker productivity. Competition causes firms to tie wages closely to employees’ productivity. Since 1973, the average private-sector employee’s productivity has increased by 81 percent, while their average compensation has increased by 78 percent. Some analysts have produced charts purporting to show that productivity has grown sharply while pay has remained nearly flat. These charts contain many methodological errors. The...