Temporary relief on tax and wage costs can help.

暂时减免税收和工资成本可能会有所帮助。

The answer is that firms find other ways to absorb higher wage costs.

答案是, 公司将会寻找其他方式来减少高额的工资成本。

Some employers have made one-off payments to workers, to compensate them for surging prices without incurring higher recurring wage costs.

一些雇主向工人一次性支付工资，从而在不增加经常性薪资成本的情况下，补偿物价飙升给他们造成的损失。

True, some of the industry's woes are of its own making, such as grotesquely inflated wage costs (now shrinking fast) and complacency (punctured).

的确，该工业的某些灾难是咎由自取，比如说荒唐膨胀的工资成本（如今正在快速缩水）还有它的自鸣得意（被深深刺痛）。

There's no solid evidence that a higher minimum wage costs jobs, and research shows it raises incomes for low-wage workers and boosts short-term economic growth.

没有确凿的证据表明更高的最低工资会导致就业损失，研究表明它会增加低薪工人的收入并促进短期经济增长。

Restaurant owners like this system because it gives them flexibility to hire more workers and to keep menu prices down, knowing that customers will directly cover wage costs through tipping.

餐厅老板喜欢这种制度，因为这让他们可以灵活地雇佣更多员工，并保持菜单价格低廉，因为他们知道顾客会通过给小费直接支付工资成本。

Businesses would pass on half their extra hourly wage costs to customers in the form of higher prices, but would absorb the other half since they would be selling more goods and services, or producing them more efficiently.

时薪成本增长中剩下的2%，企业会将其中一半以更高的价格转嫁给消费者，另一半自行吸收，因为它们会卖出更多的商品和服务，或生产效率有所提高。