Wages should be no lower than the minimum wage.

Their jobs are being moved to places with lower wages, lower business taxes and greater freedom to pollute.

Women earn lower wages in the non agricultural, shopkeeper sales and services categories.

Malaysian manufacturing industries have expanded to Indonesia and Viet Nam, where wages are lower.

Thus, it is difficult to state explicitly that women apos s lower wages mean discrimination.

Even though the younger workforce is ready to work for lower wages, the existing system is not attractive.

At the same time, manual workers apos wages in the private sector are much lower than in the public sector.

It should be emphasized that the phenomenon of lower wages in the private sector than in the public sector only concerns manual workers apos wages, for non manual workers being higher in the private sector.

19. The wages of plantation workers, in the earlier period, were always lower than those of their counterparts in the urban areas.

The problem is that Russian labor is less mobile than in the Europe and the United States. Russians prefer lower wages or simply waiting with no wages at all to moving in search of a new job.

Despite the increasing numbers of women joining Colombia apos s labour market, women continue to suffer higher unemployment and earn on average lower wages than men.

This division is transferred to the sphere of occupational activity and to cultural norms, according to which lower wages for women are considered to be justified.

Private sector wages as of public sector wages

In different ways, Milton Friedman and I objected, arguing that such a policy would require an ever rising inflation rate. Money wages will lag behind demand, I argued, only as long as the representative firm is deterred from raising wages by the misperception that wages at other firms are already lower than its own a disequilibrium that cannot last.

65. The lower wages of women vis à vis men are a persistent phenomenon, due mainly to the employment of women in less remunerated sectors of the economy.

Wages boards 84. Wages boards set up under the Wages Boards Ordinance determine wages in a number of industries, services and plantations on a tripartite basis.

The study reveals a considerable difference between the wages of men and women, whether net daytime wages, daytime wages plus supplements or parity wages are examined.

Women's wages are lower than men's, even in sectors that are traditionally women's sectors, such as health care, education and social services. This is particularly true of rural women.

Furthermore, although large numbers of women work and invest much time in productive and reproductive activities, their remuneration in wages or in kind is lower than that of men.

Average wages

Although the employment of women has increased, in some areas it has been paralleled by high unemployment rates, lower wages and a deterioration in the terms and conditions of employment.

According to the 1994 National Household Survey, low wages are the rule in the rural sector as a whole and constitute one of the reasons for the lower living standards.

It is considered that these disproportions are mainly the effect of unequal opportunities for advancement and of consistently lower wages in the non manufacturing sphere, where women are mostly employed.

According to conventional wisdom, the corporate tax burden is borne principally by the owners of capital in the form of lower returns. But, as capital becomes more mobile, relatively immobile workers are bearing more of the burden in the form of lower wages and fewer job opportunities.

Determination of wages.

Good wages, eh?

Second, workers are concerned that profit sharing may come at the expense of wages, with the substitution of uncertain profits for certain wages resulting in lower overall compensation. Effective profit sharing schemes must be structured to prevent this outcome, and strong collective bargaining rights can help provide the necessary safeguards.

Currently women dominate in such employment sectors as education, health care, social care, and their average wages as well possibilities of career growth are lower than in the sectors dominated by men.

Millions of women continued to live in poverty, suffering the consequences of inadequate health care, lack of access to education and job opportunities, lower wages, discriminatory laws and physical or sexual violence.

89. A minimum wage fixing system is defined as a statutory process aimed at achieving a more generally applicable and legally enforceable lower limit to wages, invoking the authority of the State.

Scarce labor drives wages.

However, minimum wages exist.

Movements in minimum wages

Social protection, wages, pensions

(ii) Public sector wages

Wages (in 1000 balboas)

Wages boards Remuneration tribunals

Wages and food supplement.

Wages and food supplement

I get good wages.

Who guarantees our wages?

If women's wages were 67.6 of men's wages in 1999, they were 60.8 in 2003.

At present 39 wages boards are functioning and determine minimum wages for the following industries

Enhancing wage flexibility in an environment in which unemployment exceeds 11 will allow firms to cut wages, and lower labor costs will permit them to cut prices in an effort to gain market share. Deregulation that intensifies product market competition will similarly lead to lower prices (that being what competition does).

The information for 1993 1995 shows not only that women are represented in greater numbers than men in the lower monthly income ranges (below two minimum wages) but also that this trend is increasing.