[Industrialized countries] A 1991 study in the USA concluded that there had been broad-based wage reductions during recovery from the recession, including severe declines for both blue and white collar men and for both college-educated and school-educated workers. The real wages of most groups had decreased over the previous 20 years had decreased among men, notably amongst the less well-educated. A 1994 ECE report confirmed that cuts in income levels in western market economies had been most severe for unskilled workers in the USA, where real wages in the lowest-paid 10 percent of jobs fell by more than 1 percent a year in the 1980s, and in the UK where social protection had been reduced significantly during the previous decade.