Word: waging
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...former economic powerhouse at a staggering 11.3%, auctioning off your labor online may be the best way to go. At www.jobdumping.de, a website that has been a hit since its launch in October 2004, job seekers post their qualifications-- in everything from pet grooming to accounting--and the minimum wage they will work for. Would-be employers then place their bids, with the highest offer taking the prize. Alternatively, employers post jobs that need doing, along with the maximum wage they are prepared to pay, and candidates then compete for the opening, until the cheapest bidder wins...
Restricted-Access Data. The Crimson portrays the fact that restricted access provisions apply to some of my data as extraordinary, but such provisions are routine for school, health, wage, tax, and investment records. I made an informal survey of recent studies in the economics of education and found that 70 percent of them use data that are not entirely public...
...wanted to write about men who slaved for a fisherman’s wage so they could eventually return to their home country and their wives and kids—but, tongueless, I hadn’t yet gotten anybody to talk...
...OECD countries. In wealthy Scandinavia, the average is less than 5%. Japan's rich-poor divide is particularly worrisome, warns a January OECD report, because of the "lack of movement between the two segments of the work force, trapping a significant portion of the labor force in a low-wage category from which it is difficult to escape...
...national tax agency released its annual list of the country's top 100 taxpayers. Tatsuro Kiyohara, a 46-year-old fund manager at Tower Investment Management, ranked No. 1, with a tax bill that suggested a personal income of approximately $100 million. This marked the first time a wage earner had captured the top spot, an occasion that many writers and talk-show hosts alternately hailed and lamented as a signature moment in the new, more Darwinian society?for Kiyohara's pay is almost entirely performance-based. The Nikkei Weekly business newspaper opined: "This new era is one in which...