China News Service, Beijing, December 2 (Liu Liang) The International Labor Organization’s "Global Wage Report 2020-2021" report released on the evening of the 2nd showed that affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, in the first half of this year, in countries where official data is available Among them, monthly wages in two-thirds of the countries have fallen or their growth has slowed.
The report shows that the impact of the crisis on workers is not the same, women are more affected than men.
The report estimates a sample of 28 European countries and finds that if there is no wage subsidy, women’s wages will decrease by 8.1% in the second quarter of 2020, compared with 5.4% for men.
The crisis has also severely affected low-income workers.
The loss of working hours in low-skilled occupations is higher than that in high-paid management and professional positions.
Data from 28 European countries show that if there are no temporary subsidies, it is expected that the wages of the lowest 50% of workers will be reduced by 17.3%.
Without subsidies, the average salary of all groups would be reduced by 6.5%.
The report analyzes the minimum wage system. Currently, 90% of ILO member states have implemented minimum wages in some form.
But the report found that even before the outbreak, there were 266 million people in the world whose income was below the minimum hourly wage.
Among workers whose income is at or below the minimum wage, women account for a higher proportion.
The report also studies wage trends in 136 countries in the four years before the outbreak.
The study found that global real wage growth fluctuated between 1.6% and 2.2%.
Real wages have grown the fastest in Asia and the Pacific and Eastern Europe, while real wages in North America, Northern Europe, Southern Europe and Western Europe have grown much more slowly.
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