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Europe’s Ticking Time Bomb: Wage Inequality

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Updated: 24/09/2018 - 12:10 GMT+2

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With 20% of European workers making five times the income of the bottom 20% the slow growth of wages at the bottom has meant a manifold increase in inequality across Europe. Real Economy looks at how to solve a problem like inequality.

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