Real earnings rose by 3 percent over the last three years.

This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people's real earnings.

The department will also report real earnings for January.

This is not, of course, to say that workers would have been prepared to face long-term falls in real earnings.

"If this continues, it's going to create some real earnings challenges," he said.

After this peak has been reached, their real earnings fall, but only very moderately.

So investors would scratch their heads and wonder what the company's real earnings were.

Why the effect should suddenly be so large, since there was some rise in real earnings before 1992, is the hard part to explain."

This makes it quite clear how the gap between apparent and real earnings increases with time.

Few of the Web companies were real businesses with real earnings.

Reported profits rose more in the 1990's than did real earnings, thanks to that aggressive accounting.

But census data show that the real earnings of the typical college graduate actually fell in 2004.

All this helped increase productivity, which allowed for increases in profits and real earnings.

What explains this stagnation of real earnings, which has been going on not just during the Reagan years but since 1973?

Real earnings are supposed to be compared to real losses.

It is a fact that, beginning in 1973 and continuing through the 1980's, real earnings nationwide have gone basically nowhere.

Instead of mass unemployment, industries will suffer only from a decline in real earnings.

"You look for carriers that have real earnings momentum."

"Our company is selling at a real multiple of real earnings, so I've got to be careful."

Consumers can no longer use their houses as cash machines to compensate for the hit on real earnings and are watching what they spend.

Real earnings (after taking inflation, unemployment, and short hours into account) of all employees doubled over 1918-45.

But, the indictment says, Enron reported those sales as providing real earnings, which no accounting rule would ever allow.

Imagine if he had let slip that the real earnings of women have actually declined since he took office?

As of August, real earnings were one-tenth of 1 percent below the level a year ago.

"Then you're removing the impediments to real growth and to real earnings."