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Why aren't salaries growing more?

9 March 2016

John Van Reenen is director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.
''Over the last seven or eight years, wage growth has been very disappointing all over the world. After the Second World War, times were really good. ''Ever since the global financial crisis wage growth, which was doing pretty well over the past 50-60 years - something like 2% a year - fell a lot in richer countries and also fell or stagnated in poorer countries.''

This article was published online by BBC News on March 9, 2016
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