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    Negative Impacts of Drastic Minimum Salary Rise to Indonesia Economy In late 2012‚ minimum worker salary for 2013 has become an important and concerning issue. This was caused by drastic increase set by the local governments across Indonesia. In Jakarta‚ for instance‚ wages have increased by 44% compared to last year. The Bogor government also has implemented strong increases‚ where the minimum wage climbs up 70% from 2012. Although the rise is intended to improve welfare of workers and enhance

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    hours for extremely low wages. Instead of spending time with their families‚ they serve others food‚ clean their offices and sometimes their house. They are described as unskilled laborers who never worked hard to free themselves from the poverty line. Different people have different opinions on low-wage work and why it even exists. Many companies benefit from low-wage work because they can spend less on employees which makes it easier for their companies to survive. Low-wage work is always unfair

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    The Skills Dilemma Skills Under-Utilisation and Low-Wage Work A Bottom Ten Million Research Paper Jonny Wright and Paul Sissons January 2012 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Skills under-utilisation in the UK and low-wage work – the scale of the problem 3. The challenge of improving low-wage work: the role of skills utilisation 4. An analysis of skills under-utilisation in two low-wage sectors – retail and hospitality 5. Conclusions and policy recommendations Appendix I: Under-use of skills

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    companies to employ very low wage labor? On the subject of low wage‚ Companies employ its staff on low salary for specific reasons. A low wage is sometime misinterpreted as minimum wage‚ but a low wage means a salary that stands just above minimum. Low wage labor is role played in many firms today but why‚ the assignment will talk about why companies pay some staff a low or minimum wage. Low salary’s is what most companies prefer because by implementing minimal wage into the business the company

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    Employment and Wage Rate

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    Questions for Homework 7 1. | The value of marginal product A. | equals marginal product. | B. | describes the costs of hiring an extra worker. | C. | equals marginal product divided by price. | D. | equals average product times the wage rate. | E. | equals marginal product times price. | |   2. | The marginal product of the 14th worker is 8 and the firm sells its output for $4 per unit. The value of the 14th worker’s marginal product is A. | $2. | B. | $4. | C. | $12

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    Ehrenreich's Wage Failure

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    explains how the wages had been increasing since 1973. The wage in the early 2000s did not meet the amount earned back in 1973. The workers chose not to quit their jobs because they would run into transportation issues. Even if they had a car to drive to and from work‚ they still had to pay for gas which took away from their salary. Employees count on the money taboo to keep their ways of income a secret. Low wage workers benefit from this because they do not want to reveal their wage compared to others

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    Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania On April 1‚ 1992‚ New Jersey ’s minimum wage rose from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour. To evaluate the impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania before and after the rise. Comparisons of employment growth at stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (where the minimum wage was constant) provide simple estimates of the effect of the higher minimum wage

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    Gender Wage Gap

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    employers while the supply side of the labor market are the workers and the potential workers. The equilibrium of the demand and the supply determine the wage rate. Wages are given as the price of labor for the work done by an individual and the reward for the investment on the human capital of the worker. However‚ inequality in the

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    The Wage Gap in America

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    The Wage Gap in America The wage gap is a serious problem that has consequences for women in America‚ our two parent families and our single mom households. The government tries to reduce the wage gap between men and women’s earnings and tries to make sure that women’s talents are properly used and rewarded. A lot has been done to relive the wage gap in the past fifty years‚ but it still is not enough. Women can do things on their own to help close the wage gap. They can get a non-traditional

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    Increasing Minimum Wage

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    arguments-minimum one paragraph. Your response should be written in your own words‚ using your own thoughts‚ ideas‚ and opinions. Include information from the chapter reading assignment and the case study to help support your points. Be sure to let your reader know where you got your supporting information by including a citation afterward. An example of a citation for your textbook is (Noe‚ Hollenbeck‚ Gerhart‚ & Wright‚ 2009). Answer to question #2 with supporting arguments-minimum one paragraph

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