I en større årsoversigt gør FNs Arbejdsorganisation (ILO) regnestykket op: Afmatning i de gamle industrilande og fremgang i de nye økonomier – stadig enorme lønkløfter med f.eks. en timeløn i Filippinerne på 7-8 kr. mod 190 kr. i Danmark.
GENEVA, 7 December 2012: Global wages remain far below pre-crisis levels, says a new United Nations report, which points to a continuing slowdown in developed countries alongside increases in emerging economies.
“The Global Wage Report 2012/13”, released Friday by the International Labour Organization (ILO), shows that global monthly wages grew by 1,2 per cent in 2011, down from three per cent in 2007 and 2,1 per cent in 2010.
The report cites considerable differences in wage levels across countries and regions.
A worker in the manufacturing sector in the Philippines took home 1,40 US dollar (ca 7,70 DKR) for every hour worked, compared to less than 5,50 dollar in Brazil, 13 in Greece, 23,30 in the United States and almost 35 dollar (ca. 190 DKR) in Denmark.
“This report clearly shows that in many countries, the crisis has had a strong impact on wages – and by extension, workers,” said ILO’s Director-General, Guy Ryder, adding:
“But the impact was not uniform.”
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While wage growth suffered a double-dip in developed economies – where it is forecast at zero per cent in 2012 – it remained positive throughout the crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Africa, and even more so in Asia.
The biggest changes were seen in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which went from double-digit pre-crisis rates to a “hard landing” in 2009, the ILO stated.
In the Middle East, wages appear to have dropped since 2008, although the data is still incomplete.
The differences between the regions are particularly stark when examining wage growth from 2000 to 2011.
Globally, wages grew by just under a quarter. In Asia, they almost doubled. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, they nearly tripled, although following significant declines in the 1990s. And in the developed world, they increased by just about five per cent.
Included in the report are recent findings that show wages have grown at a slower pace than labour productivity – the value of goods and services produced per person employed – over the past decades in a majority of countries for which data is available.
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