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  2. Here's the difference between a 'minimum wage' and 'living ...

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    As cost increases persist and workers try to keep up, buzzwords like “poverty wage,” “minimum wageand “living wage” are coming back into the lexicon, shaping conversations about what ...

  3. Iron law of wages - Wikipedia

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    The iron law of wages is a proposed law of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker. The theory was first named by Ferdinand Lassalle in the mid-nineteenth century.

  4. Living wage - Wikipedia

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    A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. [3] This is not the same as a subsistence wage, which refers to a biological minimum, or a solidarity wage, which refers to a minimum wage tracking labor productivity. Needs are defined to include food, housing, and other essential needs such as ...

  5. Minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    Minimum wage in South Korea with terms of presidents. The South Korean government enacted the Minimum Wage Act on December 31, 1986. The Minimum Wage System began on January 1, 1988. At this time the economy was booming, [195] and the minimum wage set by the government was less than 30 percent of that of other workers. The Minister of ...

  6. Immiseration thesis - Wikipedia

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    In Marxist theory and Marxian economics, the immiseration thesis, also referred to as emiseration thesis, is derived from Karl Marx's analysis of economic development in capitalism, implying that the nature of capitalist production stabilizes real wages, reducing wage growth relative to total value creation in the economy. Even if real wages ...

  7. Can people live on minimum wage in NC? Here’s how it ... - AOL

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    The living wage for a single adult with no children in North Carolina is $17.14, and the poverty wage is $6.19, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s living wage calculator.

  8. Fei–Ranis model of economic growth - Wikipedia

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    OW denotes the subsistence wage level, which is the minimum wage level at which a worker (and his family) would survive. The line WW' running parallel to the X-axis is considered to be infinitely elastics since supply of labor is assumed to be unlimited at the subsistence-wage level.

  9. More than 40% of full-time U.S. employees aren’t making a ...

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    The report used data from 600,000 full-time American staffers, and analyzed it using MIT’s living wage calculator. The average livable wage in the U.S. is around $23 per hour, according to the ...