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Encouraging Job Advancement Among Low-Wage Workers: A New Approach
White Papers While their employment rates have risen considerably, most former welfare recipients continue to earn very low wages. Using a new dataset from the Census Bureau, some recent research suggests that low earners' advancement prospects are closely tied...
[July 19, 2005, 6:00]
Policies To Foster Human Capital
White Papers In response to the new labor market for skills in which the real wages paid to high-skilled and highly educated workers have increased while the real wages paid to low skilled and less educated workers have decreased, there is renewed interest in...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Monetary Policy And Price Stability
White Papers We discuss several issues that concern the selection of a central bank’s inflation objective: price measurement questions must be recognized in articulating the goals of monetary policy under sustained low inflation, questions about the behavior...
[September 16, 2003, 0:02]
Is The Minimum Wage An Effective Tool To Promote Decent Work And Reduce Poverty?: The Experience Of Selected Developing Countries
White Papers The third section of the paper consists of an overview of low wage labour markets and presents trends in employment, average wages and minimum wages. This paper presents a survey of the effects of minimum wage legislation on the level of employment...
[May 26, 2005, 3:00]
China And India Losing Cost Advantage
News According to the study released on Wednesday, China and India are among the few countries which have IT sectors that are able to compensate for major weaknesses in their business environment by parlaying unique factors, such as workforce size, low...
[July 12, 2007, 13:30]
The Real Meaning Of Article Ratings
Talkback Obviously we strive for traffic, because we pay our wages by selling advertising on the site. For instance, if a story only does low traffic but gets a high reader rating that indicates people found it very useful, it may actually be more valuable...
[November 21, 2007, 9:01]
IT Vendors Exposed Over 'sweatshop' Factories
News This has seen many manufacturers outsource some of their operations to developing countries where wages are much lower, it's easier to hire and fire workers as demand changes, and very few people are members of a union.
[January 27, 2004, 16:50]
Government Gives Further Boost To Employee-PC Scheme
News Under the scheme, UK workers get to install a brand spanking new PC in their homes, originally paid for by their employer, and pay a small amount back every month straight out of their wages. For every employee, a company can get £500-worth of tax...
[January 20, 2004, 10:25]
HP Urges European Debate Over Outsourcing
Talkback Most cost savings don't come from low wages, but from saving social benefits on these people. I'm absolutely positiv on outsourcing to low wage countries. However I excourage law makers to adjust laws that companies are only allowed to sell...
[January 26, 2004, 7:48]
ShortFall? From An Ex Student
Talkback Even with a job having these qualifications don't make any difference regarding duties and wages, well it seems that way from my angle qualifications are not as valuable as experience doing a set of tasks even if they allow you to do more than one...
[February 12, 2008, 17:45]
Join The Mass Work Skive On May 15
Blog By now, you and your boss will already know if it’s feasible for you to work from home, on the road, on a beach, in space etc - anywhere except the office of the company that pays your wages. Economic growth in the UK may be as much as 1% lower in...
[May 9, 2008, 11:50]
Silicon Valley: Mixed Signals For The Future
News Wages went up in high tech and down a little bit overall. And within the high-tech industry, the wages are up, despite that overall figure. On the other hand, the gap between low-income households and other households increased.
[February 11, 2005, 14:15]
Offshoring 'not Lowering IT Wages'
News An IT employment analyst has lashed out at claims that IT workers are unhappy and suffering low wages because of outsourcing. Research released yesterday by e-learning firm SkillSoft said UK IT staff's morale is falling, and that they were blaming...
[July 21, 2005, 9:40]
News Burst: Brown's High-tech Scheme
News Cash-strapped high-tech startups often choose to supplement low wages with shares, which can become extremely valuable in the event of a successful stock market debut. Chancellor Gordon Brown is planning a slate of moves to strengthen UK investment...
[November 10, 1999, 10:16]
Banks Face Prosecution Over Indian Call Centre Leak
Talkback Although I do agree the data theft can occur anywhere it is the cost factor that makes it so worthwhile doing it via India as the wages are so low. US issue was different. What happened was that the information was on a hard drive which was lost...
[June 24, 2005, 9:06]
Google To Set Up In India
News The comparatively low wages make it highly attractive for high-technology companies and cheaper outsourcing contracts. US-based Google, the world's top-ranked Internet search engine, said it will open its first international research and...
[December 15, 2003, 14:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Prison — where the wages are low and the workers compliant. Monday 24/10/2005 Some ideas just make so much sense. Take the natural evolution of the workplace: people are being put into smaller and smaller spaces, constrained by cubicles and ever...
[October 28, 2005, 19:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I found it bad enough: for people on low wages, the thought of a 10-minute chat costing an hour's pay must be nearly unbearable. Tuesday 11/10/2005 Not the best of days. A call from up-country says that my mother has been taken into hospital (it...
[October 14, 2005, 18:45]
Charity Sees Big Loophole In Ethical IT Code
News This situation arose, CAFOD said, because cost-cutting IT firms were outsourcing their production facilities to parts of the world where wages are low and employment rights limited. The ethical code of conduct launched last week by IT firms...
[October 25, 2004, 14:45]
UK Firms' R&D Spending Slide Continues
News In order to meet these challenges, the UK must build on its strengths of science and innovation, competing on ideas not on low wages. Government tax incentives have failed to halt a decline in research and development investment by UK businesses...
[October 25, 2005, 11:15]
