And the downward pressure on British wages is just temporary, she says.

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As demand for crowdsourcing labor grows and technology improves, Mr. Robertson adds, workers can now make the equivalent of full-time annual wages from hundreds of temporary jobs.

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If there was a temporary shortage, you temporarily paid higher wages.

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Instead, according to a report this week in Syria Today, the government has steeply increased public sector wages and offered 100, 000 temporary workers full-time contracts.

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For workers in industries -- for workers in industries that have been hard-hit, we'll help make up part of the difference in wages between their old job and a temporary, lower paid one, while they receive re-training that will help them find secure new employment at a decent wage.

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The last thing these unions would sanction would be the mass employment of young workers on a temporary basis at living, but not union-scale, wages and benefits.

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In theory, global trade should cause prices in different countries to converge: the prices of low-cost producers should gradually increase as wages rise (ie, China's falling prices were a temporary anomaly), while the prices of high-cost producers should fall.

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Without these cross-subsidies, all firms would have fewer incentives to make temporary lay-offs and firms in declining industries would have more reason to cut wages before jobs.

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Those few miners that were lucky to find other jobs were joining temporary employment agencies with no guarantee of regular income or the local textile factories where wages were far lower than they had earned in the mining industry.

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