Now the population is expanding fast - more than 13% are immigrants, attracted by plentiful jobs, high wages and a comprehensive care system.
This month ForbesWoman ranked it as the best city in the country for working mothers, thanks to its affordable cost of living, great school system, high wages and short commute.
Politicians are not going to adopt a system that taxes the wages of the rich at a lower rate than the wages of blue-collar workers.
Luckily for Konka, the workers began to accept the new contract system as productivity and thus wages and bonuses rose.
Perhaps the traditional system of seniority should ration all wages and salaries?
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More money in the system just means more money being offered in wages to those best footballers.
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But this system is used for automatic payments such as direct debits and wages.
After some studies, it was determined that the employers and employees in that system should each contribute one and one half per cent of wages paid by or to them.
Germany's system of centralised pay bargaining, under which unions and bosses set wages and hours across whole industries, makes matters worse by compressing wage differentials.
In the wide-ranging speech, Ed Miliband pledged to vote "yes" in a referendum on changing the voting system to AV, said Labour should have recognised concerns about jobs and wages resulting from immigration.
Under that system, state-sponsored industry cartels programmed every aspect of economic life, from wages and working conditions to prices, production levels and product specifications.
"There has been no pressure on driver wages at all this year, but remember, we took a lot of capacity out of the system, " says Hartnett.
More importantly, the immigrants most tempted by such a fee-based system would be those who would garner the biggest economic benefit from migrating, such as those whose wages would increase by the largest amount.
Although German industrialists and economists now fret that too much harmony boosts wages and blunts competitiveness, the two main parties seem convinced that their electoral fortunes depend on staying with the familiar system.
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