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Introduction: The wages issue considered as one of the most important issues which has been raised recently and that because of its direct impact on he wider sector of the society and that can be seen in the protests of he class based demands for improving and development of wages especially after the 25th of Jan revolution. 1. The study aims to shed the light on the concepts and the various dimensions of the wages issues. 2. Presenting the economic and the social variables should be taken in account when expose to the issue of determining of the value of the wage. 3. Reviewing the rates of contributions in the economic activity in the public and private sector and its doubling rates in the private sector in the time that the worker productivity decrease strongly and under the non -adequate work conditions of the private sector compared with the public one in work stability and participation in social and health insurance. The main finding: 1. the wages averages of the public and the private sectors was noticed that the monthly average wages of the public sector is two time of the private sector one where its equal 2235 LE compared by 1124LE at the private sector. 2. the ratio of the employee who get equivalent wages for the general wage average or more than it in the public sector than its equivalent in the private sector so the public sector foundations still have an relative advantage according to the wage than the private sector although following the privatization policy in a lot of companies . 3. The highest average of wages according to the profession were for the workers in legislation .senior officials and managers where it reaches to 4634LE in the public sector and 5042 LE for the private one. 4. Concerning the variation in both sectors we can find that the disparity in the public sector wage is less than the private sector one and we can notice that the least wage average in the public sector was 1350LE for the workers in agriculture and fishing compared with 656 for the private sector. 5. It was noticed that there is increasing in level of the general wage average in the public sector than its equivalent in the private one, the ratio of workers in different fields whose wages is higher than the general average or equal to It in the public sector is higher than the private sector according to profession among males and females 6. And concerning the impact of some variables on the wage level such as prices, the study displayed that the high level of prices exceeds the increasing in wages and also decreases the real value of the real wage and swallows the increasing in money wage. 7. The wage’s depression urges the employee to fill more than one job and thus deprive the others of these jobs which leads to high rate of unemployment. 8. The study cleared that the unemployment affects and affected by wage. 9. Increasing of unemployment urges the employers to decrease the wage average. 10. but concerning the relationship of wages to productivity there is a difficulty in determination of worker productivity which measured by the worker portion of the GDP but if there is a depression in wages in Egypt it will be met by a depressed productivity 11. The study pointed out the importance of establishing a minimum wage through the development of some proposals for calculating the minimum Such as determining it according to the average wages in order to reach to 841 LE per month, and according to the poverty line It ranges between 315 to 752 LE per month. 12. The wage reaches to 977.44 LE per month according to the basic needs basket for the class which less than 20 % in its expenditure and 1192 LE per month for the second class
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