As Andrew Hacker points out in the New York Review of Books, teenagers are a significant source of low-paid labour in supermarkets, shopping malls and fast-food franchises.
While up to 2m immigrants meet Malaysia's need for low-paid labour, it is harder to import the skills it needs to fulfil its ambitions to become a hub of the new information technologies.
The unit labour costs that is, the amount that had to be paid for labour relative to the value of the goods produced with it.
Buying them from China and Russia (and other countries) to ship them to the US where that high tech, highly paid, labour makes the high tech, high value added, part of the light bulbs which is then shipped off all around the world, to China, Japan, Germany, Holland, the Czech Republic and any number of other places to be finally made into the light bulbs.
Labour paid a heavy political price before the last election for proposing what the Conservatives dubbed a "death tax".
Many other tributes have been paid to the Labour peer, with Sandwell's deputy council leader Mahboob Hussain saying he "always had time to listen".
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All of the companies and trusts are wholly council-owned, and all have Labour councillors as paid board members (although in a New Labour-style effort at inclusion they also have Scot Nat board members and report to a committee chaired by a Liberal Democrat councillor).
The US number for what electronics assembly labour gets paid is just that, what they get paid.
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Although he did not formally endorse John Prescott's bid, the Labour leader paid tribute to the former Deputy Prime Minister.
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Capital is what builds the factories and the mines that people can get jobs in, purchases the machinery that makes their labour more productive and more productive labour gets paid more.
It's about being a fully paid up member of the human race before being a fully paid up member of the Labour Party.
Labour AM Ann Jones paid tribute to Ms Sandbach's speech, saying it was vital for AMs to hear the human stories behind the statistics.
Thirteen Labour councillors share out 31 paid posts between them.
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Mr Miliband, who visited Afghanistan for the first time as Labour leader last week, paid an extended tribute to soldiers' work there, acknowledged the difference in the Commons session from the normal political point scoring.
The Sunday Telegraph said the Labour candidate's earnings were paid into a company meaning he paid corporation tax of 20% rather than income rate of 50%.
Free nursery hours were introduced in England by Labour and funded by extra money paid by government into the local schools grant to be distributed by local authorities.
But even low paid work would reconnect the unemployed to the labour market (many European countries have some version of this, my native UK for example insists that the long term unemployed should go work for nothing except their welfare benefits).
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Wages paid are simply not the same as cost of labour to the employer.
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We must not forget, either, that the wages share of the labour share has been falling as employer paid employment taxes rise.
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But the oil-service firms will get only the book value of their assets, paid in government bonds and with deductions for any labour or environmental liabilities the government adduces.
He said that as party leader, he had paid a great deal of attention to how the Labour party got its message out, portraying it as a necessary part of contemporary politics.
The Brazilian labour ministry sometimes uncovers cases where workers are paid almost nothing and live in squalid conditions.
The importance here is that the labour share is the wage share plus employer paid taxes on employment.
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Tall and handsome, Engels had a taste not just for ideas but for the good life wine, women, riding with the Cheshire hunt and seems to have felt little sense of irony that all these things were paid for by the proletariat's back-breaking labour.
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Speaking to the BBC at the Scottish Labour conference, Mr Gray also warned the highest paid civil servants could see their pay cut by 5%.
Labour candidates are at least assured of having their deposits paid for them.
National pay scales with limited regional variation mean that teachers and nurses are under-paid in London and the south-east, leading to severe labour shortages.
Whitehall contracts would only go to firms paying the living wage, while those who paid less could be "named and shamed", said the Labour leader.
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Labour leader Ed Miliband is among the political figures who have paid tribute to former energy minister Malcolm Wicks, who has died aged 65.
The Labour politician said he would have replied "straight away" and paid the fine immediately, had he received one.
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