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  2. Immiseration thesis - Wikipedia

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    In Karl Marx's early writings of the 1840s, he was influenced by David Ricardo's theory of wages, which held that wages tended down to a subsistence minimum. [1] As he wrote with Friedrich Engels in the Communist Manifesto (1848), "the average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage. i.e. that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is ...

  3. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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    A thesis can also be used to point out the subject of each body paragraph. When a thesis essay is applied to this format, the first paragraph typically consists of a narrative hook, followed by a sentence that introduces the general theme, then another sentence narrowing the focus of the one previous. (If the author is using this format for a ...

  4. Iron law of wages - Wikipedia

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    The iron law of wages is a proposed law of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker. The theory was first named by Ferdinand Lassalle in the mid-nineteenth century.

  5. Minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can ... The authors of the 2000 study also reweighted data from a 1990 sample to show that at that time 62% ...

  6. Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia

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    Sowell opposes the imposition of minimum wages by governments, arguing in his book Basic Economics that "Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they either lose their jobs ...

  7. Wage compression - Wikipedia

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    Increases in minimum wage tends to result in junior (low-skilled) workers being overpaid relative to their senior (high-skilled) peers (i.e., If the minimum wage in a region increases from $20 to $25, therefore new employees receive $25 per hour, while current employees with 3 years' experience are being paid $26.50 per hour).

  8. Wage subsidy - Wikipedia

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    The wage subsidy has the same redistributional properties as the minimum wage, but American advocates draw particular attention to how it does not reinforce obstacles to full employment. Atkinson advocated introduction of a wage subsidy and increases in the minimum wage.

  9. Thesis statement - Wikipedia

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    A thesis statement is a statement of one's core argument, the main idea(s), and/or a concise summary of an essay, research paper, etc. [1] It is usually expressed in one or two sentences near the beginning of a paper, and may be reiterated elsewhere, such as in the conclusion.