Because they had the sense that declining wages are worse than rising wages, even when the total amount of wages is higher in the declining period. Here's another nice example.

Determination of wages.

During the period of 1998 2000 the wages of women constituted 72.7 of the wages of men.

The wages were calculated pursuant to section 200 of the Enforcement of Sentences Act, on the basis of 5 per cent of the base amount from April until August 1999 and in April 2000, and on the basis of 9 per cent of the base amount from June until August 2001.

Nominal wages may increase, while real wages stagnate, owing to higher inflation.

4.4 Elimination of gender disparity in wages.

Russians prefer lower wages or simply waiting with no wages at all to moving in search of a new job.

Scarce labor drives wages.

In 2004, women's average wages in Part I of the New Brunswick Public Service represented 98.1 percent of wages earned by men.

Convention concerning the Protection of Wages (No. 95)

Using their own specifications, Weichselbaumer and Winter Ebmer found that the yearly overall decline of the gender pay gap would amount to a slow 0.17 log points, implying a slow level of convergence between the wages of men and women.

Consequently, wages are market sustainable.

Part of the problem is the emergence of China, whose ultra low wages provide tough competition for Mexico, where wages are merely very low.

Appalling wages are just the start.

In 2012, wages were estimated at about 160 per month, about one fifth of the South Korean minimum wage, and about a quarter of typical Chinese wages.

For most citizens, wages are the only source of income.

Moreover, Chinese wages have been rising rapidly.

The difference in wages shall be compensated.

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I said to them, If you think it best, give me my wages and if not, keep them. So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

As a result, wages were cut by half.

The FFP has not only lifted workers wages.

Data on wages and salaries classified by gender.

Money wages will lag behind demand, I argued, only as long as the representative firm is deterred from raising wages by the misperception that wages at other firms are already lower than its own a disequilibrium that cannot last.

If every increase in the after tax wage rate gave a permanent boost to the amount of labor supplied, we reasoned, steeply rising after tax wages since the mid nineteenth century would have brought an extraordinary increase in the length of the workweek and in retirement ages.

Wages are already falling under the weight of extremely high unemployment rates.

Consumer spending is particularly robust, as wages show signs of upward movement.

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

The claimant alleges losses in the amount of USD 155,990,800 for personal property, lost wages and losses in respect of personal injuries allegedly sustained as a result of his arrest in Kuwait by Iraqi soldiers and his subsequent incarceration in an Iraqi prison from September 1990 to October 1997.

Will Phillips s work on wages gave them no choice.

Wages rose rapidly and most Germans experienced growing prosperity.

These are efficient responses to changes in real wages.

And the fact that higher wages in Germany will be matched by lower wages across southern Europe suggests that continent wide inflationary pressures will remain subdued.

Chinese wages are even lower, at just 4 of the western German average.

Currently their nominal wages are only about 7 of the West European average.

And have patience , for Allah does not waste the wages of the righteous .

And have patience , for Allah does not waste the wages of the righteous .

Amount

Elimination of the amount of USD 58,228 for ambulatory cases reduces the compensable amount to USD 37,958.

Everywhere, the share of wages and incomes began to fall as a proportion of GDP.

In urban Africa, costs for food and transport in particular are relatively high, which forces wages up. The supply of African professionals and skilled workers, meanwhile, is tight shortages also drive up wages.

That He will pay them their wages and increase them of His grace . Lo !

Control of wages is done by inspection authorities, but such supervision is not sufficient.

Spending a large amount of money to do a little amount of good is not a sound investment.

The amount of influence Saudi Arabia has can be seen through the amount of financial resources it employs.