The rise of low-wage manufacturing in China and low-wage services in India is moving jobs overseas.
But surprisingly, low wage labor is no longer a major factor for being in China.
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Since a low wage is better than no wage, this would be a tragedy.
This view misses how low wage earners contribute to the economy and government budgets.
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The most important flaw in this myth is that low wage workers actually do pay taxes.
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This particular forum highlighted the unique flexibility needs of low wage workers to manage their work and life.
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Without the waivers those companies would simply drop coverage for low wage employees leaving them with no coverage.
The BRC says consumer spending is being hit hard by higher inflation, job losses and low wage growth.
In this world, a hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars a year might well look like an unconscionably low wage.
This is particularly important when addressing the flexibility needs of low wage workers.
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Even in China, low wage repetitive work can create major conflicts between workers and corporations and be destructive to society.
But UC San Diego Economics Professor Gordon Hanson has studied the combined impact of both illegal and legal low skilled, low wage immigrants.
Showing how the nation seems to be sorting itself into low wage low house price areas and high wage high house price areas.
Thus moving assembly from a low wage area to a high wage area does not mean, necessarily, the creation of highly paid jobs.
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By contrast Scrooge, even as an old man, had no apprentices and only one employee, a low wage and low skilled one at that.
Maybe voters chose a higher minimum wage because they are growing faster, or because they have very few low wage jobs to begin with.
In contrast, if we were to try and reduce the trade deficit by on-shoring manufacturing that has gone overseas, those would be low wage jobs.
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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.
Without the management innovations and technology advancements that have been adopted by U.S. corporations even more jobs would have been lost to low wage countries.
Low wage workers who value their jobs can simply work harder.
Many are perfectly happy with the low wage (some even try to bargain me down, to try to avoid interference with Social Security and disability limits).
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The 236, 000 net new jobs added to the economy in February is misleading the gross number of new jobs included 340, 000 in the part-time, low wage category.
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High paid executives, disconnected from the reality of low wage living, often set wages based on minimum wage because they believe it is a fair wage.
Part and parcel of this has been the offshoring of low wage assembly work like the electronics to China, textiles to Bangladesh and Cambodia.
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Six of the 10 fastest growing occupations over the next decade will be low wage jobs like fast food, retail, food prep, child care, home health care.
After the fall of communism, most of the countries in Eastern Europe started from low economic bases, low gross domestic product per capita and low wage scales.
Supporters of the idea, which could link benefits to local housing costs, say it would give more incentive for people in low wage areas to get a job.
Adding 2 billion low skill and low wage workers to the global workforce is indeed going to put downward pressure on wages for low skilled workers in the rich countries.
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In all, one-third of low-wage workers are employed by businesses with fewer than 100 employees, according to estimates by the National Employment Law Project, an organized-labor-backed advocacy group for low-wage workers.
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