The phrase "a decrease in wages" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes in salary or pay rates, particularly in economic or employment contexts.
Example: "The company announced a decrease in wages due to the recent economic downturn."
Alternatives: "a reduction in pay" or "a drop in salaries."
This means that for women, a work absence is followed by a decrease in wages at the mean wage.
Here, a 1 percentage point increase in the density of African-Americans in an occupation corresponds to a decrease in wages of 9.5%%.
The OLS result in each of these two specifications shows that increases in the density of Hispanic immigrants in an occupation correspond to a decrease in wages of African-Americans, hovering around 3%%.
Similarly, for African-Americans in "Hispanic occupations", a 1 percentage point increase in the density of Hispanic immigrants in those occupations corresponds to a decrease in wages for African-Americans of 2.9%%.
For African-Americans in "Hispanic occupations", a 1 percentage point increase in the share of Mexican immigrants in the PUMA is associated with a decrease in wages of 2.1%%.
These included rapid scrapping of import surcharges that had protected local industries, state spending cuts, lower public sector salaries and a decrease in wages across the board.
For example, while Acosta (2011) does find that remittances are associated with a decrease in wage labor, he also finds that remittances tend to increase the prevalence of domestic labor, suggesting that remittances simply lead to a reallocation of child labor from paid to unpaid work.
Click here to see graph on mobile Chasing competitiveness through lower wages leads invariably to a decrease in the wages of the lower paid.
The INPS data do not contain information on hours worked per day that would allow us to verify whether the decrease in daily wages has been accompanied by a decrease in hourly wages.
Preliminarily, since compensation through CIG is only partial and workers in CIG face a decrease in nominal wages, we skip them from the analysis.
When wages are negotiated at the firm level, a decrease in the wage at a given firm is a decrease in the relative wage, something that workers will be reluctant to accept.
