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TOE Alert: Real Wages Fall Again in January
posted by Richard Katz on March 05, 2015
Found in Japan, categorized in Currencies
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Headline
However, many small and medium companies across the country are complaining that the yen deprecation has raised the prices of their inputs, but they have been unable to pass on these cost increases either to final consumers or their suppliers.
Abstract
In January, real wages in Japan were down 1.5% from a year earlier, whereas in the middle of 2014, they had been down as much as 3.5%