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"With unemployment relatively high, there's no wage pressure, and until we see that, there's not a huge threat of inflation, " he said.

It did not engineer this credit crunch to force low-wage, low-margin companies out of business. But that may be the upshot.

"Our family will not die from hunger, but cannot be fed with this wage level, " she said.

It is possible to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week.

Ask how much artificial light you can earn with an hour of work at the average wage.

So, we expect that the second part of the year will not be very good in terms of wage growth.

Banking and asset management used to be perceived as fairly dull jobs, which did not attract a significant wage premium.

The main breadwinner in her family, she used to work for a very low wage at a tea factory in Sri Lanka.

And despite some signs of wage pressure in a few cities, there is still a significant supply of underemployed labor around the country.

The company said the wage deal offered to employees was among the highest in the region in similar industries.

India's technology firms seem to be maturing, with a combination of fierce competition and rising wage costs putting pressure on profits.

Right now he is focused on trying to shift dirty, low-wage manufacturing out of Guangzhou to the countryside, where jobs are still scarce.

Germany, for instance, has long had a scheme that covers 60% of the gap between shorter hours and a full-time wage for up to six months.

Firms did not realise when they shifted operations to low-wage countries that some moves "would be almost irreversible" , says Mr Pisano.

He said the North made the wage demands considering the workers' productivity, and by looking at wage levels in other countries.

Rioters, he insisted, should be considered people who wage war against God. Such individuals, he said, should be punished by death.

He had a pretty low-wage job. He was supporting his wife and a child, and the child was going to parochial school.

Had heard that the wage will not be easy, although the early send the application, but she did not hold Too much hope.

We cannot wage a perpetual campaign where the only goal is to see who can get the most embarrassing headlines about the other side.

About two dozen unionists staged a protest to call for the immediate setting up of a minimum wage and maximum working hours.

Among all controllable costs in an enterprise, wage costs are in first place, this is very easy to understand.

After two years of "no" , she landed an interview at a big retail chain store, for a part-time, minimum wage job; not ideal, but something.

While employment is still for life for Toyota's full-ti me workers, so me complain that the company is now mise rly with wage increases.

Adam Foreman, a partner at Littler Mendelson, the law firm, says US law that guarantees interns a minimum wage is often ignored.

"Their commitment to living wage simply appears to mean that they would like to see it happening in the long term. "

Shareholders, though, continued to voice concerns at the widening gap between the wage increases of workforces and top executives.

Trade between high-wage countries tends to be a modest win for all, or almost all, concerned.

The teachers all work from home, which means that the company is better able to avoid India's high-wage employment hotspots .

If it were not for this, we could say that the price-level is compounded of two factors, the wage-unit and the quantity of employment.

The hireling, who may watch over the flock merely for a day's wage, is not expected to be so devoted.

Whatever the causes, "a college degree is not the kind of protection against job loss or wage loss that it used to be. "

How much do you expect for your primary wage?

By contrast, a policymaker trying to target a stability price index would have observed accelerating wage inflation.

Backed by robust medical insurance provided by a succession of my corporate employers, we were able to wage a fierce battle.

Other sources said Legg appeared to have no idea about the costs of paying a fair wage to a cleaner in London.

Please recollect, it was one of the countries to wage a war against IRAQ killing innocent people, children.

The traded value of the Deutschmark had not fallen to reflect the higher unit wage costs that were a legacy of the unification boom.

As the annoying financial crisis, I can only maintain the minimum wage standard of living, I really do not know after.

For most of the last 30 years, goods prices had been held down, in part, by cheap imports from low-wage countries like China.

If he could somehow save enough for an icebox, a day's wage would not have bought a pound of meat to put in it.

This "wage premium" reflects the extent to which workers have been able to extract more pay than is merited by their qualifications.

If the authors really want to wage war on complexity, the title might have been a good place to start.

Following years of wage restraint, Germany has reaped the benefits in the form of a remarkable number of new jobs.

Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, said the bank was prepared to act "pre-emptively" to avoid excessive wage demands.

"The prospect of a higher wage bill is not the only increasing cost they face, " he said, adding land and raw material prices are going up.

During peak periods there was a compulsory seven-day week and the company was found to be failing to pay the minimum wage.

The country's external competitiveness can be improved by holding real wage growth below that of other trading countries.

None of this would matter much if today's graduates could gain the sort of wage premiums of those born in the 1950s and 1960s.

Greenspan sidestepped the minefield by adding a "math gap" spin to what has so far been a debate over wage gaps.

It will not be easy to dismantle Portugal's and Spain's complex wage-setting agreements, which set a floor to industry pay.

After the trial period is how much the wage increases?

Could the Democrat-controlled Congress force him to it, by denying him the money to wage the war?

Consumer prices are lower now than they were a year ago, and wage increases have stalled in the face of high unemployment.

She worked nights at the hospital, but the small wage that she was earning could only be stretched so far.

Three years age she used to work for a very low wage at a tea factory in London.

"Scott Rudin is made of money, " she said. "I don't think it would be so hard for him to pay five interns the minimum wage. "

A new prime minister must be prepared to tackle these problems and to wage the political wars necessary to fulfill his government's goals.

A president wage a hefty war at the cost of the people due to personal enmity seems to be incredible isn't it?

When a worker under medical treatment is not able to work, the employer shall pay him compensation according to his original wage.

His nominal wage is fifteen pounds a week, but he makes a few pounds more on the side.

Such benefit discrepancy would also be larger as the wage ratio used for cost imputation becomes higher.

Many work very long hours and receive little food, no time off and pay that is a fraction of any minimum wage, if it materialises at all.

Wage push and rigid labour laws across most of these vulnerable countries did not help either .

Japan would not hesitate to court or attempt to wage war both against Great Britain and the United States.

Meanwhile, anyone with a complaint can wage an internet war against a company, or attempt to hold it to ransom.

And perhaps that is the key point: it is perfectly possible to pursue one's creative ambitions in tandem with a bit of mundane wage-slavery.

The company's wage bill is over a million pounds a year.

To secure the homeland, America did not just wage foreign wars. It also created a colossal security and intelligence bureaucracy at home.

One possibility is to follow the German example and endure years of wage restraint.

A year later, it reported that providing a consistent definition of a living wage was impossible.

Mr Hobbs thinks the bank's freedom to wage this battle is limited by a reluctance to offend and a need to lend.

Wage growth must at least keep pace with productivity growth; interest rates must rise substantially; and the currency must be revalued.

There cannot be any unemployment, at least if the wage-adjustment mechanism works properly.

The union is prepared to moderate its wage demands across German industry in an effort to save jobs.

And, for women under 30 living in big American cities, the infamous gender wage gap seems to have flipped.

It would be insane, for instance, for Germany to embark on an expansionary wage policy that led to higher unemployment.

With a median hourly wage of $15. 51, being a high-flying roofer is still near the bottom of the barrel.

The British government, urged by the interest groups connected with the opium trade, decided to wage war on China.

But now consumer budgets are being squeezed at a time when unemployment is still high and wage rises are hard to come by.

Foxconn and Honda have responded with wage increases, but strikes seem to be spreading.

Harman is also working with its Chinese suppliers to help relocate them to other parts of China where wage inflation isn't as severe.

What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.

Think of the MD's wage as a sort of "lifetime achievement" award for somebody whose productive contribution is long over.

In 1950, with a conventional filament lamp and the then wage, you would have had to work for eight seconds to get the same amount of light.

But against a more sophisticated state foe, particularly one able to wage electronic warfare, the benefits of such UAVs could quickly fade.

He said China's government wants to make sure workers can benefit more from economic growth. 'We believe the wage increase is healthy. '

In those areas the typical wage could be two-thirds that of the more developed coastal provinces, or less.

Under the Japanese, the laboring classes had been able to eat fish, eggs and some meat on an average wage of a hundred yen a month.

Not that Chinese workers are buying second homes or anything like that: Their average wage is still a little short of a dollar an hour.

Many international companies are considering closing up in this country and transferring production to low wage economies.

Among the unions' demands were an end to public-sector job cuts, a boost to the minimum wage and a reversal of tax cuts for the rich.

If he gave in to such demands, the result really could be a 1970s-style wage-price spiral.

With a likely pick-up in employment, wage-and-salary income growth should also pick up.

There exists in actuality no prior determination of the total non-wage surplus, after which its aggregate can be redistributed .

The company provides employee with competitive wage, whole set of social-benefits and commercial insurance.

nor are unions likely to be able to make wage demands that contributed to "cost-push" stagflation.

Some of the wage cuts, like the givebacks by Chrysler workers, are the price of federal aid.

Puny demand was partly the result of small wage rises, but it was also because Germany's service sector is underdeveloped.

The fee ensured that the worker would be paid a decent wage and that his employer would not deceive him.

They forecast that up to half the wage differential observed in recent years "can be expected to disappear. "

This would not be a problem if the minimum wage was a living wage, but in many Chinese cities it is anything but.

A virus is artificially introduced into a man's body to wage "germ warfare" against him in order to bring about immunity.

Even if they are in a position to receive a full-time wage, they often do not get health insurance or other social benefits.

The very poorest, who slip under the minimum-wage threshold to take the most menial and casual jobs, earn less than $200 a year.

Select and determine the form of wage system is critical, which reflects the company's value-oriented.

Everyone got a raise in salary: there was a wage increase of three percent across the board.

For two or three years they live the lives of partisan commanders and commissars; they wage battles, seize territories, etc.

and 28 percent in the inland province of Chongqing, a lower-wage region to which manufacturing has only begun to relocate.

Even ACORN, the organization that claims to help the poor by, among other means, promoting a "living wage, " learned this first hand.

Today, I finally got my paycheck from working at my minimum wage job for the last three months.

Good campaign started, the company will address the employees wage arrears to workers and do practical things as a major project task.

And now Henry has conceded that the hefty wage bill he inherited did not translate into strength in depth in the squad.

in 1914 , when the basic wage for an industrial worker in detroit was $ 11 a week , ford announced that he would pay his workers $ 5 a day.

You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave.

In Europe, although wage restraint has kept costs down and employment up, especially in Germany, it has also kept consumer spending down.

That said, the process is fraught with some risks. First of all, the stagnant wage growth was not limited to Foxconn and Honda.

Over the next two years, the minimum wage in the United States is expected to rise to $7. 25 an hour.

But there was a cost. Wage and price controls were used to contain inflation, which surged when controls came off.

Wage rates have been rising sharply across the delta following the deaths, but some of the underlying problems remain.

"Wage stagnation was an important trigger of the crisis and continues to weaken recovery in many economies" , added Mr.

It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

They had to work from early morning until late at night for a wage barely enough to keep body and soul together.

In the early years of the reform, the minimum wage fell significantly below the poverty line.

There is no suggestion that Abramovich will shatter the wage structure at the club to match what City would be willing to pay the defender.

In Sao Paulo a piano costs a year's wage and none were stolen - what's important is the art project reaches a diverse audience.

I hope that the welfare of the company, as well as the work of wage negotiable.

Hey , you know what I just realized ? You are the sole wage earner .

Mike: It only pays minimum wage , but it has set hours and it is indoors, so I can stay out of the heat.

That, anyway, has always been the premise. But here Samuelson dissents . What if the lower-wage country also captures the advanced industry?

Even if I was fortunate enough to get hired right away, I'd be lucky to receive anything above minimum wage.

He said wage increases and welfare programs are putting more money in Chinese consumers' pockets.

After the audit , the actual factory wage was plotted on the ladder to see how it compared against the benchmarks .

The objective was to encourage the factory wage to move up the ladder over a set period.

To do this, we weight the hourly wage for each grade by its proportion of the total labor required to produce the product.

My boss told me that because minimum wage went up, that would be my raise.

Back in 1950, you would have had to work for eight seconds on the average wage to acquire that much light.

And just as each manufacturer wants a higher price for his particular product, so each worker wants a higher wage or salary.

China may be on the brink of a vicious wage-inflation spiral, which could undermine the authorities' grip over the economy.

Workers on lower wages consume much of their income, while higher wage earners and those with capital income are more likely to save.

as a result of the dissymmetrical information, the enterprise may demand a lower wage to the worker by their advantage of information.

Clearly, it is no longer at issue whether there should be a minimum wage. The issue now is the level of the statutory minimum wage.

Blair: Except she gets to wage the war from the comfort of her penthouse while you remain behind bars.

Part of the reason that manufacturing jobs are disappearing may be that fewer people are willing to do this kind of work for a low wage.

Although minimum wage rates had previously covered a few industries, this was the first time that a general rate had been set.

A live able wage does not mean: Home ownership, a new vehicle, private school educations for your kids, and a fat 401k.

Enterprises may also be reluctant to provide financial information and operational information relating to wage collective bargaining.

For those companies stuck in Guangdong, hiring low-wage foreign workers is an attractive option, whether local officials like it or not.

Absent access to credit, we must also be prepared to watch low-wage workers slide into desperate straits.

As part of the new law, the government will review the minimum wage level at least once every two years.

In fact, wage growth actually seems to be slowing, thanks to the weakness of the job market.

Higher-wage workers would receive inducements to leave, paving way for lesser paid new hires.

The wage stop is the device used to stop families receiving more in social security payments than their normal income from full-time work.

With his small talk, the press had found a stolen his " " wage section.

These dire warnings proved way off the mark after the national minimum wage came into force seven years ago.

Too many people do not earn the value of their salary or wage, in terms of the contribution they make to profit or effectiveness.

At least that has increased total wage compensation , helping to keep private consumption ticking over .

One rapidly growing pile is for a telemarketing job paying less than a third of the city's average wage.

He has declared the US's right to wage "preemptive war" against any country in the world which does not bow down to its demands.

If Big Business would be the winner from a repeal of the minimum wage, it is no great secret who the losers would be.

Members typically paid $2, about a day's wage, to have yearly access to a doctor's care (minor surgery was frequently included in this fee).

What sort of things could I do if I did a low-wage job just down the block?

The basic compensation that an employee receives, usually as a wage or salary, is called base pay.

wage payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.

But, given soaring wage inflation in private firms, which are also struggling to hire the talent they need, it would not fix the problem.

Germany is reaping the benefits of years of wage moderation and labour-market reforms that improved its competitiveness.

I still remember the first wage I got is only 80 yuan. When I received the first wage of my life, a dreamily happy smile unfold on my face.

Look for minimum wage or volunteer work for professors on campus who are in areas that might be of interest to you.

What are the likely consequences of a switch from wage to piece rates for turnover, recruitment, productivity, and product quality?

The governments invariably determine the minimum wage on the basis of the cost of consumption to meet workers' minimum nutritional needs .

But they didn't, and that meant that every year, the money that would have gone to middle-class wage increases instead went somewhere else.

Bank of Korea also said the price rise itself will not stop, wage increases, consumption increases and so will further push up prices.

In terms of relative unit wage costs, Germany's competitiveness has improved by around 13% since the euro started.

If I were being paid an hourly wage. with the standard time - and - a -half for overtime, I'd be earning much more.

The agreement includes provision to give up to $600 in tax rebates to millions of wage earners and an additional $300 refund for each child.

When you work for someone else, there is only you and only so many hours in the day to work for an hourly wage or a salary.

Companies are shedding jobs and outsourcing either abroad or to low-wage regions of China.

Pandora's team claims that this is a serious business, with the developers working full-time on the project and making a living wage.

Statistical data on the average wage in the public why such a deviation from personal experience?

They receive 'near the minimum wage' in Foshan, he said.

Both workers and employers might be expected to agree to large wage increases in times of low employment than in times of high unemployment.

My nominal wage is 5000 yuan. Though it sounds like a great amount, but I still spend it all every month.

The pay of every employee is known, and even senior executives receive no more than 19 times the average wage.

Most of the hiring during the 2000s took place in lower-wage countries in Eastern Europe.

Everyone should have the right to a decent wage and a decent home.

Japan does not have a national minimum wage, but rather a local system which tends to set minima at very low levels.

Workers at the bottom of the wage scale have seen their incomes fall relative to those at the top.

"If you employ a cleaner for five to six hours a week, pay a decent wage and pay national insurance, there are consequences, " one said.

A second worker replies listlessly . "We are trying to earn a 200-dollar daily wage. "

Corporate restructuring, wage competition and a revolution in information technology boosted profits.

The above position offers excellent liberal wage and benefits depending on skill level and years of experience.

The policy will be set forth in a ruling to be issued Wednesday by the Labor Department's wage and hour division, the officials said.

Sometimes it pays off handsomely but other times the earnings, given the hours you put in, don't even add up to minimum wage.

The minimum wage has increased. The minimum wage is not enough to stop poverty.

Take out a blank sheet of paper, the "time budget" you prepared yesterday, and the approximate hourly wage you calculated earlier.

The company kept its promise and gave the workers a wage increase at the end of the month.

Co-ordinated wage-setting to compress wages is possible because of strong unions as well as commitment from employers and the state.

While Detroit slept, Japan had transformed itself from a low-wage economy into a hotbed of business innovation.

Wage delays have already led to a strike by migrant workers on a construction site in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg.

Analysts have been cutting their earnings estimates for Hon Hai and its Foxconn unit following successive wage increase announcements.

The city is engulfed in a divisive debate as it prepares to set its first-ever minimum wage.

Hope to be able to play to their expertise, interest work ~ according to their ability to set wage standards, is to experience.

Another report concluded that the long-term decline in wage share, wage disparities and the link between global economic crisis.

The system will ensure that wage increases commensurate with higher productivity, thus enhancing competitiveness at the firm level.

The recession of that decade meant jobs were harder to find, so people were more willing to take lower-wage, non-union jobs.

Second, the larger wage increases do not seem particularly widespread, even for the high-valued added labour.

Divisions of the wage scale must be arbitrary and rigid. Running a "planned state" from central headquarters is clumsy, unfair, inefficient.

In later research others added strong trade links, wage flexibility and a central fiscal authority to the list of necessary features.

If you wage war. do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter. and consequently less inhuman.

In the U. S. , where only 7% of private workers are unionized, there is now little danger of an inflationary wage-price spiral.

And back in 1880, it would have been 15 minutes to earn that amount of light from the average wage.

Wage pressures were reported as "moderate or limited for all but a few skilled-labor positions, " the Fed said.

Instead, when a mercantilist China uses unfair trade practices to wage war on our manufacturing base, the American economy is the big loser.

Italy's exporters are struggling with high wage costs and a strong euro.

Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.

This calls for a more sustainable pace of growth, with wage-earners getting a bigger share of the national income.

GEORGE SHULTZ: I was there, and I opposed them. Wage and price controls, you could see analytically, would get you in a lot of trouble.

I'm simply a wage-earner, and I find it difficult enough to raise one child, so I won't consider the second.

They were more than twice as likely as other workers to be paid less than the minimum wage.

It then went into relative decline until 1980, whereupon it again started to be a high-skill, high-wage sector.

Employers frequently pay workers below the minimum wage, and some employers do not pay their workers at all.

The dispute at BA centres on its desire to cut costs by reducing cabin staff on most flights and limiting wage increases.

Wage-driven inflation would also help to narrow China's trade surplus by pushing up the price of its exports.

For the majority of the wage-earning public, the soaring prices have taken the dream of buying their own home further out of reach.

Tornadoes can occur any time of year, but they wage all-out war on the U. S. during spring and summer.

By embracing a minimum wage Mrs Merkel may deprive the opposition of a vote-winner in the next election, due in September 2013.

Just as crucially, tight credit threatens to shut the safety valve of the low-wage sector of the economy.

No one much complains about the minimum wage today; it has improved the meagre lot of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.

the standard wage paid by an employing unit to an employee shall not be lower than the minimum wage.

The effectiveness and deficiencies from the perspective of reform, wage reform and the lack of effectiveness can be described as a set.

So far, wage increases have been broadly absorbed by productivity gains and margin erosion.

If you want to increase competitiveness, productivity growth is less disruptive than wage cuts, and wage cuts are better than unemployment.

Some central bankers argue that there is nothing to worry about as long as wage growth remains tame.

They then pass on the cost in the form of dearer prices, cheating workers of a higher real wage.

She was earning $132 a month now, but she expected that would rise as high as $236, higher than her $197 peak-season wage at the factory.

Everyone has the right to work for a fair wage in a safe environment and to join a trade union.

The wage laborer is not as much interested or solicitous in his work as the free landed proprietor.

In the beginning, wage labour will be necessary and will remain possible whenever anyone likes to work on the labour market.

Qianlong visible in most parts of the country there have been quite common to use the phenomenon of wage-earners.

As well as power cuts , the country's mining is being affected by growing wage demands and a trend of flat lining investment .

India has a remarkable ability to wage long-running low-intensity wars without their causing a sense of national outrage or panic.

The wage rate determines the willingness of employees to work (the supply) and of employers to hire them (demand).

The global market of textured yarns has faced a dramatic shift of production capacities to low wage countries during the last years.

Head office is not always surplus to requirements: I wouldn't want to wage a war without a logistics team.

India needs hundreds of millions of productive, decent-wage jobs which can only be provided by industrial employment.

Higher-than-usual unemployment and erratic wage growth make it hard to find that kind of money.

As the German export sector returns to full capacity, one would expect wage costs to rise by more than the eurozone average.

She used to work for a very low wage at a tea factory.

The document affirms domestic workers' rights to a minimum wage, a weekly day off and a limit to their working hours.

To openly commit murder or wage war invites the pretense of justice, and penalties exacted in the name of drow justice are merciless.

It will have to be WORTH the sacrifice of your own life to wage it.