Moreover, compared to workers in those regions, Latin Americans tend to be better paid but less well educated.
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"There is always going to be a huge demand for workers who can be legally underpaid compared to similarly situated American workers, " Mr. Costa said.
When given the opportunity to walk away during an experimental waiting period 38 percent of female workers walked away compared to 52 percent of male workers.
The current unemployment rate among workers ages 20-24 is 13%, compared to 8% for older workers, according to the most recent economic data.
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Also, as my colleague Ashlea Ebeling wrote in May, the Urban Institute released a report showing that median monthly earnings fell 23% after an unemployment spell for reemployed workers aged 50 to 61, compared with just 11% for workers aged 25 to 34.
Finnish Liberal MEP Riika Manner drew attention to the fact that there were far fewer female self-employed workers compared to men.
Only 3 percent of workers near the poverty level who are eligible for COBRA opt to keep their insurance, compared to 14 percent of workers who made more money before they lost their job.
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However, the current unemployment rate among workers ages 20-24 is 13% compared to 8% for older workers, according to recent economic data.
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Only 21% of young people say they openly discuss politics at work, compared to 29% of workers between ages 25 and 34, and 36% of workers age 35 and older.
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Big Three workers get an average 46 minutes of break time per day, compared with 20 to 30 minutes for workers at Japanese-owned plants.
At the time, the average female worker earned just 60 percent of the wage compared to their male co-workers.
Among members of the creative class with no college degree, the post-recession unemployment rate was 5.7%, compared to 10% among service sector workers and 15.1% among counterparts who also had no college degree and had previously been employed in working class jobs.
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The money paid to hosts goes directly to the local residents, compared to chain hotels, which do pay its local workers but also takes a portion of the money back to the corporation.
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The total number of full time, year round workers in the entire bottom fifth of households in 2004 was less than 3 million, compared to 16.4 million full time, year round workers in the top fifth of households.
Her report shows that 34% of Brooklyn renters are tech or creative workers, compared with 25% who are creative and tech workers in Manhattan, according to data provided by On-Site.com, a provider of electronic tenant screening and lease-processing services for landlords.
Only 8% of French workers belong to a union, compared with 19% in Germany and 12% in America.
He denied that many public service workers had generous conditions and pensions compared to people in the private sector.
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At-home workers had a substantially higher job satisfaction compared to those who were not able to work at home and their job attrition rates dropped a whopping 50 percent.
Union Auto Workers president Bob King has compared paying union dues to paying taxes for public works.
The study then compared the views and voting behaviour of unskilled and skilled manual workers to those in the better paid white collar jobs.
In February, survey participants hired 0.17 workers on average over the past three months, compared to a net decrease in employment for 33 out of the past 37 months.
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And while Google Docs online spreadsheet and word processing software is stripped down (when compared with Office), it does make it easier for workers to share a single online document and collaborate on it with colleagues--something that gets complicated fast when multiple copies of a Microsoft Word document are blasting around the office.
Between 2005 and 2007 roughly 80% of Spanish workers aged 16 to 19 were on temporary contracts, compared with 32% of 30-year-olds and 24% of 40-year-olds.
Staff are more likely to belong to trade unions: 59% of public-sector workers do compared with only 19% in the private sector.
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Management decided to tell each worker where they ranked in both wages and productivity, compared with other workers at the warehouse.
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One encouraging finding is that there does indeed appear to be less corruption in countries where public servants are paid relatively well compared with other workers.
The average age of GM's workforce is 50 (compared to 45 at Ford, and 46 at Chrysler), and 64% of GM workers are eligible to retire within five years (vs. 31% at Ford, and 30% at Chrysler).
He has compared university administrators to subprime-mortgage brokers, and called debt-saddled graduates the last indentured workers in the developed world, unable to free themselves even through bankruptcy.
By their count, U.S. and U.K. workers on corporate laptops are more than twice as likely, compared with desktop users, to send confidential info by instant message, and about a third more likely to send confidential data across Webmail.
Another 4, 723 workers in Wales suffered injuries which required at least three days off work last year, compared to 4, 898 the previous year.
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