We send low-productivity jobs to China because we have more productive uses for our economy at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minimum wage] Reference

New jobs in low-productivity manufacturing or service businesses will not increase the average wage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

As the areas returned to a low-productivity state, erosion, migration and livelihood collapse resulted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 8] Reference

It is because we shed low-productivity jobs that we move to a wealthier and more-productive set of options.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debating Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

China still had an overwhelmingly agricultural economy, with low-productivity cultivation accounting for 90% of GDP.    From Wordnik.com.  [In China] Reference

A new low-productivity factory with a low average wage will raise the average standard of living if it significantly reduces unemployment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

However, it seems perverse to have the goal of stimulating the growth of low-productivity sectors and businesses rather than higher-wage opportunities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

It's the shift in economies like China away from low-productivity sectors such as farming and toward higher value (often exported) manufacturing and services.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Finance Rules Have Potential to Alter the Path of Global Trade] Reference

The "creative destruction" that results in resources moving from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities would be stunted by protectionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversation with Dr. Alan Greenspan at MTLC] Reference

The problem lay instead in high transport costs, generally small markets, low-productivity agriculture, a high disease burden and the slow spread of overseas technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Wouldn't an organizational behavior theorist say that there needs to be a differential incentive distinguishing the high-productivity, medium-productivity, and low-productivity professionals?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific misconduct as a principal-agent problem] Reference

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

I understand the Luddie reference, but why can't you guys see this is different because it is the high-wage high-productivity jobs that we are losing, and not low-productivity jobs that we would rather not do anyway?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Identifying and terminating low-productivity employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [SearchOracle: Oracle news and trends] Reference

Are we encouraging the creation of too many low-productivity businesses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online] Reference

The creation of high-paying, low-productivity union jobs for political supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insider Online] Reference

Price controls and other government mucking about contribute to the low-productivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dealbreaker] Reference

The problem is especially severe on low-productivity sites having gravelly or sandy soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

It's all the grants, bonuses, etc, that SAB is compelled to hand out to its low-productivity 'whekers.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Guardian Online] Reference

Shift focus from low-productivity farming to industry, says expert photo: Creative Commons/USACE Europe District.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to BAE clinches $779m order for Hawk trainer jets] Reference

But he said the government lacked a plan for weaning the economy off construction and other low-productivity jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hispanic Business Magazine] Reference

The low-productivity zones, likened to deserts, now cover an estimated 51 million square kilometers in the two oceans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherry Creek News] Reference

"Farmers who receive diluted fertilizers may choose to stop using them altogether, leaving them in low-productivity agriculture.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference

In another pertinent study, after five years of exposure of a nutrient-poor low-productivity calcareous grassland to atmospheric CO.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Content on CO2 Science] Reference

"Seemingly the Taskforce thinks the path to economic parity with Australia is a low-skill, low-productivity path," said Tertiary Education Union president Dr Tom Ryan.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

"Malaysia is trapped in a low-value-added, low-wage and low-productivity structure," Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah told an economic outlook conference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

Gasbuggy called for a 26-kiloton warhead - reclassified as 29-kiloton after the blast - to be set off 4,240 feet underground in an existing, low-productivity gas well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durangoherald.com] Reference

Those nations invested heavily in infrastructure and education, and quickly moved their workers from low-productivity jobs in rural areas to more productive jobs in cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Herald] Reference

"Malaysia is trapped in a low-value-added, low-wage and low-productivity structure," Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah (left) told an economic outlook conference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy Politics Economics] Reference

In reality, the majority of the 4 million hectares are stunted trees growing on low-productivity sites - granite rock faces and high altitude snow forests - most of which cant be profitably logged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Perspective] Reference

Along with allowing farmers to plant on low-productivity deforested land through a change in zoning laws, the program explicitly forbids farmers to clear additional forests for palm oil cultivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

1 A very low-productivity month, though not as low as March!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drabbles on Flashshot; August Report] Reference

As a result, the low input/low-productivity model of production continues to prevail, and small farmers’ incomes remain depressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Sudan] Reference

"improved allocation of resources" (by which he means such things as the movement of labor from low-productivity agriculture to higher productivity industry).    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert M. Solow - Prize Lecture] Reference

The arriving workers allowed Spain’s own relatively older citizens to move up the economic food chain and leave low-productivity, low-wage jobs to the new kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock of Gray] Reference

"Harper boasted of the jobs created during the past two years, but Ms. May pointed out that the new employment is mainly in low-productivity service jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment] Reference

2 content would appear to bode well for these nutrient-poor Swiss grasslands, as well as for other low-productivity grasslands around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Content on CO2 Science] Reference

2 on the number of flowering shoots (+24\%, P nutrient-poor, low-productivity calcareous grassland, atmospheric CO.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Content on CO2 Science] Reference

Malaysia is trapped in a low-value-added, low-wage and low-productivity structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [mental jog] Reference