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

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

Is Low Wage China Disappearing?

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

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

He had a pretty low wage job.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Prompted by capital flows to low wage countries, specialization, outsourcing, and even immigration, the equilibrium price of unskilled labor has fallen throughout the western countries.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, harmonization would probably apply to wage replacement payments, implying uniform minimum wage constraints for EU countries.

Typically, in developing countries, agricultural wage workers consistently display the highest incidence of extreme poverty, largely because of the low wages on small farms and seasonal unemployment.

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

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.

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

Most strikingly, countries in which people wage nonviolent struggle were way more likely to emerge with democratic institutions than countries in which they wage violent struggle.

While most of the world s advanced countries face increasing difficulties in coping with the forces of globalization and competition from low wage countries, the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden seem to have managed these challenges quite well.

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.

Provided this capacity remains in good repair, job losses through improvements in the efficiency of domestic production or through outsourcing to low wage countries will enhance standards of living.

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.

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

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

So poor countries are by and large low trust countries.

By working together, countries could escape the trap of low productivity, low quality, low wages, low development return and adverse external conditionalities.

Within the last few years, people throughout the world's most advanced economies have become acutely worried about the economic prowess of China, India, and other emerging countries with large low wage populations.

Other low income countries should follow suit.

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

Currently, the average wage of the ten countries that joined the EU in May 2004 is about one seventh of the West German wage level, and the Chinese wage is one twenty fifth.

The fourth shock was eastern EU enlargement, which has brought extraordinary chances for trade and investment in the east, but has also brought massive low wage competition. On average, wage costs in the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004 are only 14 of the West German level.

For most countries, therefore, it remains a potent source of high wage employment.

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.

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

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.