The real complaint against developing countries is not that their exports are based on low wages and sweatshops.
And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development.
And anti-poverty campaigners say the government's approach is wrong, as many families living in poverty have someone working full time on low wages.
Lowering the working age will greatly impact young adults who are just starting to work now, and likely keep the pressure on low wages.
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Administration officials rushed to offer a waiver to the firm, fearing a stampede for the exit from other big employers of workers who are on low wages.
"We would end up competing on low-wages and low-skills: an off-shore low-value economy, a race to the bottom, " he said.
Workers relying on such low wages and unstable employment are not likely to be able to educate their children enough to escape increasingly high rates of unemployment.
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The priority to find "African solutions" would bolster and diversify national economies currently too dependent on low-wages and unhealthy jobs in mining and oil industries designed primarily to benefit foreign investors.
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Eastern Europe too has been making a play for offshoring business based on its relatively low wages and physical proximity to western Europe.
What I found interesting about this latest study is that while a significant motherhood penalty exists at all earnings levels, the largest economic penalty for having children is inflicted on women earning low wages.
Adding 2 billion low skill and low wage workers to the global workforce is indeed going to put downward pressure on wages for low skilled workers in the rich countries.
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But the hard work and the low wages on offer are failing to attract workers from within the country.
On top of the low wages, the company benefited from an agreement by which Bangladesh, as one of the world's poorest countries, can export to the European Union without paying duty.
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And when immigrants working for low wages do put downward pressure on natives' wages, they may raise the (real) wages of natives in general by keeping prices lower than they otherwise would be.
That said, the stats also perhaps indicate that disproportionately low spending on players' wages is probably not a sustainable strategy - since in the season just ended, as stress-wrecked Wolves fans will know, the club only avoided relegation by a whisker, on that nail-biting final match day.
The effect of low-skilled immigration on wages, along with the declining value, in real terms, of the minimum wage, have made the decision of young people not to enter the workforce a no-brainer.
Which would very definitely lessen the pressure on US wages as they would then be about the same as low end US wages.
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Thus, the job-destroying effects of minimum wages fall particularly hard on low-skilled adults in poor families.
The rise has also been blamed on high house prices, rent and low wages.
But low wages may have less effect on poverty than the fact that the poor are not working full-time.
There is a sensible argument to be had about immigration and population (see article), and whether this wave of low-paid workers has put pressure on wages.
High paid executives, disconnected from the reality of low wage living, often set wages based on minimum wage because they believe it is a fair wage.
Benefit recipients, he suggested, had done "relatively well" in recent years in comparison to working people on low incomes, many of whom who have seen their wages frozen and incomes fall in real terms.
In rich countries, competition from millions of new, low-skilled workers has acted as a drag on wages for less-skilled ones in advanced economies.
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William Lester, and Michael Reich, for example, use county-level data over a 16.5 year period to examine the impact of local differences in minimum wages on employment in restaurants, which primarily hire low-skilled workers.
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There is also no word on a massive push for local police forces who toil with low wages and antiquated equipment - the so-called quick response team of the Maharashtra police, for example, has not fired a single shot in the past year because of the lack of ammunition.
It's clear to billions around the world that the Pope believes that, here on Earth, justice must be done for those who labor for low wages.
Judge Thornton said however, that in an area blighted by low wages and high property prices, Cornwall Council was entitled to put little weight on a policy which "was not considered fit for purpose any more".
In general, while companies raised wages in response the low unemployment in the 1990s, they partly compensated by cutting back on pension contributions and health care payments.
It will come into effect on 1 April, and will be welcomed by a workforce which for years has had to cope with low wages often paid months in arrears.
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