This is bad news for black women, given the reality they are overrepresented in low-wage jobs.
Many of those once employed as semi-skilled workers are now fighting for low-wage jobs.
Lower-skilled, low-wage jobs will continue to be replaced by computers and foreign workers abroad.
Most of the job growth since the 2010 recovery has been in low-wage jobs.
Unemployment is relatively high, and many of the jobs that are being created are low-wage jobs.
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The current German idea is not to trim welfare but to subsidise employers who create low-wage jobs.
Others suspect a poverty trap in the making, with people stuck with low skills in low-wage jobs.
Other academics want to overhaul unemployment insurance to top up the pay of those who take low-wage jobs.
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That is to say that their employment in low-wage jobs did not provide enough income to permit them to improve their living conditions.
But it would do so by removing the incentive to provide the low-wage jobs that the benefits were meant to encourage.
Though one-third of all Saudis are unemployed, the kingdom imports 6 million foreign workers to fill the low-wage jobs Saudis don't want.
In 2007, horse slaughter plants never created more than 178 low-wage jobs.
With changing economies that reward skills, it is anyway getting harder to move up the ladder from low-wage jobs to better-paid ones.
The education and health services, the thing that worries me about that job growth, much of that job growth is very low-wage jobs.
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In addition, the government has imposed new social-security contributions on low-wage jobs, and tightened restrictions on the self-employed, part-time work and fixed-term contracts.
They are therefore low-wage jobs: we have absolute proof that they are low-wage jobs because people are currently being paid low wages to do them.
We also gave increased weight to areas with high and growing per-capita incomes, to avoid steering people to cities that are adding lots of low-wage jobs.
Single parents are also far more likely to be employed in low-wage jobs and, even though they have above average employment rates, also have above average poverty rates.
Although critics decry these as low-wage jobs, in a city with an unemployment rate of 7.8% (and very much higher in the inner wards), beggars cannot be choosers.
Some have specific technical skills the U.S. needs, while even workers with lesser education or lower skills bring a strong work ethic and a willingness to fill low-wage jobs.
To help retirees who have spent most of their working lives in low-wage jobs, the report called for several changes in the calculations of the special minimum primary insurance amount.
First, it has been difficult to find people, many of whom had worked for years in low-wage jobs, who could support themselves and their families while they participated in longer-term training programs.
Many studies about the effects of higher wages on overall employment tend to be politicized, clashing over whether the benefits of higher paid workers outweigh the costs of having fewer low-wage jobs.
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All of this is causing an increase in inequality in America rather than a decline, as higher income workers are not being forced into part-time work, dropping out of the work force, or suffering mid-wage jobs being replaced by low-wage jobs.
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But, according to a study by two economists, Joachim Ragnitz and Marcel Thum, such a wage imposed across the economy would wipe out 1.1m low-wage jobs 3% of employment in western Germany and more than 6% in the east, where productivity is lower.
Remember the story of that once-great nation that sacrificed its well-paying manufacturing jobs for low-wage, burger-flipping jobs at the altar of free trade?
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But they also keep minimum wages high and, in the name of equality, narrow the variation between low-and high-wage jobs and industries.
The Times also reported that the kinds of ads that state a preference for already-employed applicants reached from low-wage, fast-food jobs to higher-wage posts like business analysts.
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