Minimum
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TaskRabbit, which subcontracts household jobs like assembling Ikea furniture, requires participants to pay a
minimum
wage, and has launched an insurance scheme to protect its US workers.
The German public does not recognize that agreeing to Eurobonds would be much less risky and costly than continuing to do only the
minimum
to preserve the euro.
It can continue to do no more than the
minimum
to preserve the euro.
So, too, will the provision requiring that 40-45% of a vehicle’s value be produced by workers earning a
minimum
of $16 per hour by 2023 – a rate that is far above what Mexican autoworkers can expect to make.
The likely outcome is a further cut in public investment, combined with additional social spending and an increase in the
minimum
wage, which would benefit some Germans, but also make it more difficult for refugees to find jobs.
In Mishel’s words, “if free-traders had actually cared about the working class, they could have supported a full range of policies to support robust wage growth: full employment, collective bargaining, high labor standards, a robust
minimum
wage, and so on.”
With one daily
minimum
wage in Venezuela, you can buy barely a half-pound (227 grams) of beef or 12 eggs, or 1,000 liters (264 gallons) of gasoline or 5,100 kWh of electricity – enough to power a small town.
They began by using their knowledge of biology to deduce the
minimum
set of genes that would be required for life.
That proved inadequate, as standards and rules remained very different from country to country, and gave way to an approach based on
minimum
harmonization, whereby core rules were to be the same across Europe, but local variations and additions remained permissible.
Some 50,000 men were involved in the new operation, but progress was slow because of rain and the need to keep casualties to a
minimum.
The Memorandum, revised in 1991, entitled Shell to a guaranteed profit of between $2 and $2.50 per barrel produced as long as oil prices remain in the range of $12.50 to $23.50, and provided that it invests a
minimum
of $1.50 on every barrel it produces.
According to national household surveys, a Chilean worker earning the
minimum
wage takes home $300 a month, while a professional in the top 10% of the income scale typically makes about $2,400 dollars a month.
The key to recovery, then, is to tax the rich, increase transfers, and restore worker incomes by enhancing union bargaining power and raising
minimum
wages.
By offering to buy shares in the mutual fund at a
minimum
preset price, the central bank would provide a way of channeling funds into the financial system in times of crisis.
Shenzhen, to head off trouble, has announced a 16% increase in the
minimum
wage.
Beijing’s municipal authorities have preemptively boosted the city’s
minimum
wage by 20%.
At a minimum, Venezuela’s slow-motion coup d’état warrants commissions of inquiry in the spirit of the Russell Tribunal, and greater interest from the Western media – not the embarrassed silence with which the international community has responded so far.
But, at a minimum, the debate, in the words of US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, “shines a light” on North Korea’s “abysmal human-rights record,” and the need for some accounting of that record.
At a minimum, a short-term growth slowdown is nearly certain; some wonder whether the destabilizing impact of capital-flow reversals will have longer-term adverse effects.
Moreover, most FDI promotion agencies in the region lack the
minimum
financial and human resources needed in order to be effective, owing to governments’ lack of political will to support them and to eliminate parallel processes that confuse investors.
But, in others, it is regarded as a
minimum
to which additional rules may be added.
But, aside from the
minimum
wage, the government does not set pay scales.
And while raising the
minimum
wage would boost income for those who have jobs, it could also increase unemployment.
But Iran wants more: at a minimum, formal recognition of its “inalienable right to enrich” uranium, no shutdown of any existing facility, and the removal, in significant part, of the many sanctions that have been imposed upon it (for refusing to comply with Security Council resolutions requiring it to suspend all enrichment activity).
Brazil’s experience offers three important lessons for nations implementing renewable energy initiatives: (1) government policies must be consistent, simple, and long-lasting, providing assurance to would-be entrepreneurs that they can invest for the long haul; (2) picking winners, the familiar weakness of overenthusiastic bureaucrats, must be kept to a minimum; and (3) the state must have the discipline to dismantle subsidies when the need for them has passed.
These trends imply an increased probability that the market is underestimating risk, so systemic risk regulators should raise
minimum
capital requirements as soon as they spot them.
In particular, the influx of Venezuelan labor has put significant downward pressure on wages in Colombia’s informal sector (including agriculture, services, and small manufacturing business) – and just when the government was hoping to raise the
minimum
wage.
For example, the index of the frequency of paying bribes, calculated by the World Bank and EBRD, was 2.7 in 1999 and 2.03 in 2005 (the value of 1 is the minimum).
Thanks to pressure on garment manufacturers in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster, the industry’s
minimum
wage was increased 77%, to $68 a month.
And in a country where
minimum
marriage-age laws are rarely implemented, earning a paycheck is the best way to avoid a premature wedding day.
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