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Examples
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If he’s GOT to have an income for doing nothing, let him have no more than what we call wages.
Kangaroo 2004
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Page 98: It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in wages.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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Given the current economic downturn, there was little appetite for a strike over a percent or two in wages.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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In southern California, apparel productivity gains have been made through slow-growth in wages.
The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And Billy resolutely kept undivulged the cut in wages.
CHAPTER V 2010
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The White House has already floated one approach to the issue of future benefits, suggesting that the benefits be based on price increases rather than on the current formula, which is based on economy-wide growth in wages.
Social Security Incrementalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This time it is the absolute certainty that employers will drop health insurance for employees, but make up for it in wages.
Matthew Yglesias » Why The Impatience on Employer-Sponsored Health Care 2010
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Page 98: It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in wages.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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In San Francisco the barbers, laundry workers, and milk-wagon drivers received such an advance in wages.
THE SCAB 2010
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Workers lose jobs, and the next generation of workers make less in wages.
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