By removing trade barriers, GATT could wipe out some lower-wage jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dole's Virtual Presidency] Reference

This is not just an issue of moving to lower-wage, lower-cost locales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weissman: "U.S. Multinationals Have Been Decoupling from the U.S. Economy," says BusinessWeek] Reference

Workers complain about how their jobs are shipped to lower-wage countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Local] Reference

These tended to be lower-skilled and lower-wage jobs than construction work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bryce Covert: The Other Side of the 'Mancession': Women Left Behind] Reference

To provide adequacy, however, the formula is weighted so lower-wage workers receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement Before The United States Congress On Social Security] Reference

In effect, businesses would receive an ongoing subsidy to employ lower-wage workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save Jobs, Reform The Tax Code] Reference

Those jobs don't count toward the 20% cap on lower-wage workers under the labor accord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ford Looks to Trim] Reference

It shifts them from lower-wage sectors to higher-wage ones, which is good in the long run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: Fable Vs. Fact] Reference

Kim Carpenter said the company doesn't know when hiring will begin for the lower-wage jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Union's Giveback Isn't Yet Helping GM] Reference

It found a minimum wage increase in New Jersey did not cause a decrease in lower-wage jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Ohio Right Wing Spreads Minimum Wage Jobs Myth] Reference

Is it likely that the lower-wage people will figure it out and start charging higher prices?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Really A Good Web Worker?] Reference

To meet the competition, U.S. services companies are moving employees to lower-wage countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hewlett-Packard Takes Aim at IBM] Reference

Providing an additional incentive to employ lower-wage workers would have a number of benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save Jobs, Reform The Tax Code] Reference

Senate bankruptcy bill includes costly tax cuts that could harm lower-wage workers by Iris J Lav.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Specter' of HR 1106] Reference

Many contributions by lower-wage workers would be matched by an existing federal savers tax credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [White House Launches Initiatives to Help Workers Save] Reference

He won among lower-wage earners, who were Clinton's most reliable supporters less than a month ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Traction] Reference

Garment makers are moving off Saipan to even lower-wage countries such as China, Vietnam and Cambodia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Jack Abramoff and Montana US Senator Conrad Burns--Election Donations, Senate Bills and Pacific Islands] Reference

From manufacturing to high tech to customer call centers, businesses are moving U.S. jobs to lower-wage nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2004] Reference

Many Americans have been out of work for months and are resorting to lower-wage or part-time jobs to make ends meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yearly Job Loss Worst Since 1945] Reference

Businesses have increasingly outsourced tech work to lower-wage locations over the past decade as a way to save money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outsourcers Brace for a Hit] Reference

But Japan's car companies already have had an edge over their American rivals, thanks to lower-wage and-benefit costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Models Key for Japanese Auto Profits] Reference

About 80% of those, he says, are lower-wage workers, the ones less likely to be offered or to obtain health insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Government Adds] Reference

Indeed, much of the job of President of the United States seems to have been outsourced to a lower-wage Vice President.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Someone Else Do It] Reference

Nearly half of all workers in the private sector don't get any paid sick time and lower-wage workers are the hardest hit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2006] Reference

It replaced many programmers and help-desk workers from the U.S. and Western Europe with workers in lower-wage countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Service Rival Looms for IBM] Reference

  The recession of that decade meant jobs were harder to find, so people were more willing to take lower-wage, non-union jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic, Global Economic Shifts Force US Organized Labor to Change] Reference

The EPI study found that 1.5 million jobs were lost to lower-wage Chinese competition in the 14-year period between 1989 and 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Norman: Don't Take That Rebate Check to Wal-Mart] Reference

Chinese companies can also shift production away from more expensive coastal cities to lower-wage areas in western China, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Big Auto-Parts Makers] Reference

Income growth also has been slower than in the rest of the country, as manufacturing jobs are replaced with lower-wage service jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Ohio, GOP Tries Blame Economy on Democrats] Reference

It is, moreover, a tax cut on the income of everyone, with lower-wage workers benefiting more on a percentage basis than upper income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Abrams: Funding Social Security and Healthcare in a Globalized Economy: A Progressive Sales Tax on Goods and Services] Reference

On average, lower-wage workers have more limited coverage as part of their compensation, mostly from small - or medium-size businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and Health-Care Equity] Reference

Under the current formula, lower-wage workers get a slightly better deal than do higher-wage workers, assuming the same life expectancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Turns FDR Upside Down] Reference

If you're a lower-wage worker, you may not have earned enough in the last quarter or the last five quarters to get unemployment benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008] Reference

On average, lower-wage workers have more limited coverage as part of their compensation, usually from small - or medium-sized businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equity and Health Care] Reference

It didn't flag job cuts, but said cost reductions will be achieved mainly through sourcing and moving production to lower-wage countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABB to Take $850 Million Charge] Reference

That means many graduates end up with lower-wage, lower-skill jobs at less-prestigious firms or in firms outside their field of interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Class of 2009] Reference

Thanks to lower-wage rivals like Thailand, Malaysia and China, it's lost its edge in manufacturing, and is increasingly challenged in services.    From Wordnik.com.  [SINGAPORE'S BLING] Reference

Such companies may be forced to farm out more production to lower-wage locations in order to remain competitive in markets like the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [They're Mad About Money] Reference

Even lower-wage Southeast Asian competitors like Vietnam and Indonesia can't yet compete with China's size, expertise, flexibility and efficiency.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Rags To Riches] Reference