Japan's June real wages decreased 0.8 percent from a year before in the first fall in three months, labor ministry data showed Friday. Nominal wages including bonuses fell 0.4 percent to ¥429,686 ($3,880), the first drop in 13 months, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso violated the ministers' guidelines recommending against the purchase or sale of golf club memberships while in office, a parliamentary report showed Monday. An official at Aso's office said the deputy prime minister "should have refrained from" buying ...
National lawmakers earned ¥24.12 million ($214,600) on average last year, up 6.3 percent from 2015, due partly to an increase in compensation, data from the Diet showed Monday. The top earner was Upper House member Keizo Takemi of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, who reported ...
U.S. employers added a robust 235,000 jobs in February and raised pay at a healthy pace, evidence that the economy remains on solid footing nearly eight years after the Great Recession ended. The unemployment rate dipped to a low 4.7 percent from 4.8 percent, the ...
Companies must to better at raising the wages of their employees.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare plans to phase in a new format to calculate the premiums paid by people aged between 40 and 64 for the country's public nursing care insurance system, it has been learned. The new format will lead to a ...
A Cabinet Office survey showed Saturday that 48.1 percent of respondents are satisfied or fairly satisfied with their incomes, up 2.4 percentage points from the previous year, marking the second straight year of improvement. In contrast, 49.6 percent said they were dissatisfied or rather dissatisfied ...
Shinzo Abe's newest pet policy could run into a lot of resistance from management and whether anything actually gets done will depend on just how serious he is.
The average income of national lawmakers fell 6.5 percent in 2015 from a year earlier to ¥22.69 million for the first decline in four years, the Diet reported Monday. The top earner was Miki Watanabe, an Upper House member and founder of Watami Co., which ...
The middle class is shrinking in both the U.S. and Germany, but the reasons for the contraction tell a lot about the different priorities of the two societies.
Income inequality is driven by both political and economic forces and it waxes and wanes over time.
Despite progress in some areas of discrimination in the United States, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
