He had a pretty low wage job.

Is Low Wage China Disappearing?

And, unlike tax incentives, wage subsidies target only employment of low wage workers.

The best remedy is a subsidy for low wage employment, paid to employers for every full time low wage worker they hire and calibrated to the employee s wage cost to the firm.

Normally migrant workers work long hours while they are offered a very low wage.

Middle income, low price wage countries would grow faster with a higher inflation rate.

Germany primarily reacted to low wage competition from ex communist countries.

Moreover, exports to low wage countries cannot compensate for job losses.

The first shock was intensified globalization, which brought a lot of new low wage competition.

A substantial low wage employment subsidy is a fair and efficient way to achieve this important goal.

The decision seems to be directly targeted at low wage migrant workers

Most of these economies were suffering a loss of their export markets to low wage Asia.

Many are engaged in construction and the apparel business as low wage workers.

Both Europe and the US must do more to promote low wage workers inclusion.

It is my hope that China s comparative advantage as a low wage producer does disappear the sooner the better.

Outsourcing is used, among others, by enterprises seeking to take advantage of low wage countries.

Most were, however, engaged in such traditional pursuits as domestic work, factory work and teaching, earning a commensurately low wage.

Yes, apologists of outsourcing say, rich countries will lose low skilled jobs in areas like textiles to low wage labor in China and elsewhere.

In the first case, migrant workers are employed in the second, production is moved to a low wage country or area.

It means that the economy is dividing into high skill, high wage jobs and low skill, low wage jobs and that the middle, the middle skill jobs, and the middle earning jobs, are starting to drop out of the economy.

It means that the economy is dividing into high skill, high wage jobs and low skill, low wage jobs and that the middle, the middle skill jobs, and the middle earning jobs, are starting to drop out of the economy.

Most of these economies were suffering a loss of their export markets to low wage Asia. A decade of wage growth exceeding productivity gains led to real appreciation, loss of competitiveness, and large current account deficits.

The first option is to defend the wages of the low skilled through minimum wage laws or paying social replacement incomes which imply minimum wage demands against the private economy.

ACS's employees are but the first Africans to benefit from the hottest trend in the global economy outsourcing, or the shift of service jobs from high wage to low wage countries.

Coupled with the competition Europe will face from low wage but increasingly well educated countries, the outlook seems bleak.

Immigrants have crowded out domestic residents who prefer the benefits to engaging in low wage competition with the newcomers.

Even so, the explosion of exports coming out of low wage regions like China and India is at least a piece of the puzzle.

The country is gradually turning into an industrial bazaar that is relocating its workbench to low wage ex communist countries.

I also renewed my support for a subsidy to companies for their ongoing employment of low wage workers. (Singapore adopted this idea with enviable results.)

(a) Price and wage adjustment.

But it should be the good news for competitiveness, because Chinese wages will remain relatively low in terms of wage efficiency.

But India s service sector has been dominated by traditional, low wage output in informal businesses, such as restaurants and personal services.

As incomes in China grow, imports from other low or middle income countries rise faster than imports from high wage countries.

ILO noted that this might be a factor in the very moderate real wage increases registered in 2004 and might also explain why 27 per cent of workers earned less than the average wage and less than the minimum wage.28 A number of work permits for business people had been issued, although utilization had been low.

a Gross hourly wage excluding bonuses.

The Committee notes with concern the low level of the minimum wage, which is inadequate to provide workers with a decent living for themselves and their families, and the lack of a system of indexation and regular adjustment of the minimum wage to the cost of living.

The right approach must combine reasonable wage restraint and low (but not negative) inflation with microeconomic policy measures aimed at encouraging productivity increases.

Today, it relies mainly on low wage farmworkers from Haiti, Mexico, Guatemala, and other Central American countries a change that owes much to two decades of trade liberalization.

Surely thou shalt have a wage unfailing

a Gross hourly wage excluding special bonuses.

Lower trade barriers will make locating production in the poor low wage parts of the world irresistible to those who have access to finance.

Similarly, outsourcing to low wage countries improves living standards only if the human capital released can be used to make new goods and services.

In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no margin for lower prices.

The limitation of this approach, however, is that a free market for labor will neither eradicate unemployment nor transform marginal, low end workers into high productivity, high wage employees.

A Chinese worker simply cannot buy the same goods and services as a worker in the EU, and workers in low wage countries spend only a small portion of their incomes on EU products.