Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of whether illegal immigrants take employment away from Americans or legal aliens is more complex. Many experts argue that workers without documents are concentrated in undesirable jobs that pay the minimum wage of $3.35 per hour, or sometimes less. Says Julian Simon, a professor of business and social science at the University of Maryland: "Illegals take jobs at which natives turn up their noses because they have other options." Rice's Huddle contends, however, that many illegal immigrants have enough skills to land jobs that pay more than the minimum wage. In a study of 200 illegal aliens working...
...airport security gates, working in the emergency rooms of inner-city hospitals, cleaning hotel rooms, selling lottery tickets at newsstands, peddling flowers on city streets, even writing scholarly papers on such topics as "Coping Mechanisms of Immigrant Family Heads." They subsidize yuppie gentrification, performing the unseen, labor-intensive, minimum-wage tasks: folding the towels in the health spa, making the cold- pasta takeout salads, sewing the rhinestones on disco frocks...
...find schooling and jobs. But they also have reasons of their own. Single women may leave to escape the domination of their old-fashioned families, who want them to stay in the house and accept an arranged marriage. Peasant women have lost their traditional role in society; low-wage jobs have taken the place of a poor but independent subsistence life on the land. Political Economist Saskia Sassen-Koob of Columbia University has described the process that has created a growing female labor force as the "feminization of the job supply...
...kinfolk often help to care for young children. Without the support of a household of female relatives in the U.S., a mother must pay between $15 and $25 a week for the care of one child, far too much for someone with several children who is earning the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour. To get a better job, she must learn to speak English, but school is impossible without child care. The cycle is most frustrating for those who are widowed, abandoned, separated by war or divorced...
Unfortunately, not all Argentines were so enthusiastic. Several labor leaders charged that the wage freeze hurts their members, and one union official openly threatened to sabotage the economic plan. "We have no choice but to take some kind of action," said Raul Ravitti, the secretary of the railroad union. That attitude has blocked attempts to halt inflation in Argentina for years...