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low-wage — UK US adjective [before noun] ► HR used to describe jobs for which or places in which workers are paid little: »They are lowering costs by moving production to low wage countries … Financial and business terms
wage — [weɪdʒ] noun [countable] also wages HUMAN RESOURCES money that someone earns according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that they work, especially money that is paid each week: • The average hourly wage in the industry is $8. • Workers were … Financial and business terms
wage — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} (also wages) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ competitive (esp. AmE), decent, fair, good, high ▪ inadequate, low, meagre/meager (esp … Collocations dictionary
Wage curve — The wage curve is the term used to describe the negative relationship between the levels of unemployment and wages that arises when these variables are expressed in local terms. According to David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald (1994, p. 5), the… … Wikipedia
wage slave — noun : one whose toil for wages is tantamount to slavery * * * wage slavery. a person who works for a wage, esp. with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor. [1885 90] * * * wage slave noun A person dependent on a… … Useful english dictionary
Wage slavery — is a term first coined by the Lowell Mill Girls in 1836, [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YXT kSv1btIC pg=PA87 lpg=PA87 dq=lowell+%22wage+slavery%22 source=web ots=WsT3bkI 0G sig=w7N0JGBskFiUHReS 00amVMNaPY hl=en Artisans Into Workers: Labor… … Wikipedia
Wage insurance — is a form of proposed insurance that would provide workers with compensation if they are forced to move to a job with a lower salary. The idea is usually proposed as a response to outsourcing and the effects of globalization, although it could… … Wikipedia
Low Pay Commission — Low Pay Commission. An independent statutory body set up under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. Its remit is to monitor and evaluate the impact of the national minimum wage (NMW), to review the level of the NMW and to make recommendations for… … Law dictionary
wage — wage, wages Wages is normally used in the plural (Their wages are still too low); an older singular construction survives only in the biblical line For the wages of sinne is death (Romans 6:23). But wage is also used (What sort of wage are you… … Modern English usage
wage inflation — ➔ inflation * * * wage inflation UK US noun [U] ECONOMICS ► the general increase in the amount people earn over time: »The national unemployment rate is so low that wage inflation is bound to follow … Financial and business terms
