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In comparison with the industrialized countries the gap was only in Poland even clearer auseinandergegangen, calculated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in its on Tuesday evening presented wage Global Report 2008/2009. In Germany, wages overall in recent years particularly slow.According to the ILO was also about wage inequality in the United States, Canada or Australia from 2004 to 2006 still higher than the mid-90s. In comparison with all countries have the gap between peak and low wages, however, by far the strongest in Argentina increased. A similarly significant development was in China or Thailand to observe the ILO said.

Progress in numerous countries

Other countries such as Austria and France made it opposed the study found that wage inequality should be reduced. Even Mexico, Brazil or Indonesia did so - but the gap around in Indonesia therefore still four times as large as in Germany. While the wages of the best-paid ten percent on average in 13.4 times as high as ten percent of those at the lower end of the wage scale, that ratio is 3.26 in this country with even lower.

In Germany, wages also rose in recent years is very low. There was for the workers here from 2001 to 2007 average wage increase of 0.51 percent. In France the increase was similarly low. By contrast, some emerging markets accrues rapidly increases. In China, wages rose by an average of nearly 13 percent, even in Russia by about 14 percent.