The phrase "wage gain" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an increase in one's salary or earnings. Example: After working hard for several years, Sarah finally received a significant wage gain, allowing her to save for a down payment on a house.
Based on the typical wage gain from job-to-job moves, Mr Lazear and Mr Spletzer estimate the efficiency cost of reduced labour-market churn during the crisis at about 0.4% of GDP a year between the onset of recession in December 2007 and the middle of 2011.
Again, the results indicate a significant wage gain for those who work in matching occupations in both dimensions.
First, the higher the migration prospects (i.e. expected wage gain from migration), the lower the incentive to remit and the higher the incentive to save.
We find that a spell of work interruption during the current year leads to a wage gain of 3.2% on the return to work.
It is interesting to see that while medical degree holders (13,360) account for only 2%% of all immigrant workers (661,675), their comparative weekly wage gain (30.4 million dollars) makes up more than 6%% of the total weekly wage gain of all immigrant workers (537 million dollars).
A more meaningful approach would be to quantify the wage gain that would result if the occupational matching quality of immigrants were identical to that currently experienced by native-born workers.
But an unshackled service industry would eventually generate wage gains.
"We do expect takeoff to generate pretty substantial wage gains".
During the recession itself, by contrast, wage gains outpaced inflation.
Is this a preview of more wage gains in 2015?
Wage pressures are building up slightly, but this is after months of very modest wage gains.
