Wage Rates and Workers' Incomes

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Levels of Wages and Business Activity

Advance of Wage Rates to New High in 1937

While production, prices, employment, and payrolls were declining during the latter part of 1937, ware rates were moving upward to levels well above those of 1929. A substantial body of opinion among economists holds last year's rapid advance in labor costs to ...

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