subsistence wage

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• subsistence wage — noun One fixed at subsistence level • • • Main Entry: ↑subsist …   Useful english dictionary

• subsistence level — (also subsistence wage) ► NOUN ▪ a standard of living (or wage) that provides only the bare necessities of life …   English terms dictionary

• wage and salary — ▪ economics Introduction       income derived from human labour. Technically, wages and salaries cover all compensation made to employees for either physical or mental work, but they do not represent the income of the self employed. Labour costs… …   Universalium

• Subsistence theory of wages — The Subsistence Theory of Wages, also known as the Iron Law of Wages, was a law of economics that asserted that real wages in the long run would trend toward the value needed to keep the workers population constant. The alleged law was named and… …   Wikipedia

• subsistence — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ bare, basic SUBSISTENCE + NOUN ▪ agriculture, farming ▪ farmer ▪ economy …   Collocations dictionary

• wage — I n. 1) to draw, earn a wage 2) to pay a wage 3) to freeze wages 4) a decent, living; minimum; subsistence wage (to pay workers a decent wage) 5) an annual, yearly; daily; hourly; monthly; weekly wage II v. (D; tr.) to wage against (to wage a… …   Combinatory dictionary

• wage — n. & v. n. 1 (in sing. or pl.) a fixed regular payment, usu. daily or weekly, made by an employer to an employee, esp. to a manual or unskilled worker (cf. SALARY). 2 (in sing. or pl.) requital (the wages of sin is death). 3 (in pl.) Econ. the… …   Useful english dictionary

• subsistence level — (also subsistence wage) noun a standard of living (or wage) that provides only the bare necessities of life …   English new terms dictionary

• Wage slavery — is a term first coined by the Lowell Mill Girls in 1836, [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YXT kSv1btIC pg=PA87 lpg=PA87 dq=lowell+%22wage+slavery%22 source=web ots=WsT3bkI 0G sig=w7N0JGBskFiUHReS 00amVMNaPY hl=en Artisans Into Workers: Labor… …   Wikipedia

• Wage-fund doctrine — The Wage Fund Doctrine is an expression that comes from early economic theory that seeks to show that the amount of money a worker earns in wages, paid to them from a fixed amount of funds available to employers each year (capital), is determined …   Wikipedia

• wage theory — ▪ economics       portion of economic theory that attempts to explain the determination of the payment of labour.       A brief treatment of wage theory follows. For full treatment, see wage and salary.       The subsistence theory of wages,… …   Universalium