low-wage worker
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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A large number of low-wage workers does not offer a basis for a sustained economic recovery.
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One might argue that low-wage workers could not typically be exploited on the grounds that they voluntarily accept a wage bargain that makes them better off than their alternatives.
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However, there are concerns that any loosening of the rules could lead to a drop in participation by low-wage workers.
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If exploitation occurs only when people get less than the value of what they produce, we cannot conclude from their wages alone that low-wage workers are exploited.
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It is because of the duties that even middle-class low-wage workers should be paid a minimum wage.
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However, if nondiscrimination rules lead to increased participation among low-wage workers, then any loosening of the rules could lead to a drop in participation for this group.
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First, it distorts the incentive to save : in particular, making saving unappealing for low-wage workers who expect to retire on a low income.
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The low-wage workers represented in low-end plans may be constrained in their access to healthcare in other ways.
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If no low-wage workers were exploited, there would not then be an exploitation case for the minimum wage.
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That leaves private provision, which, being expensive, rules out low-wage workers.
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They can be targeted at low-income households; they can be varied according to family circumstance; and they do not raise the direct cost of low-wage workers to employers.
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On the same day, the government announced that it was lowering taxes for low-wage workers.
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Has it promoted wages that allow low-wage workers to escape poverty?
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His family background would have shaped his future political cause of supporting low-wage workers.
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