Policy must look beyond pay to raise living standards
Popular demand for higher pay is strengthening as memories of the 2008-09 crisis fade and jobs outgrow wages
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- Contentious policy
- More open labour markets
- Openness is positive, but breeds revolt
- Europe
- Income and productivity malaise
- German outlier
- Other countries
- Other routes to raising living standards
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