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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acceptable wages" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the fairness or adequacy of compensation for work performed.
Example: "The company aims to provide acceptable wages to ensure employee satisfaction and retention."
Alternatives: "fair compensation" or "reasonable pay".
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Summers concluded that "it is not necessarily the case" that there will be jobs for all at acceptable wages, no matter how technology evolves.
The recent whingeing by wealthy chief executives over the prospect of having to pay their staff moderately acceptable wages has made for a deeply unattractive spectacle.
Men from the poorest countries of the world are offered jobs at low but acceptable wages only to find, on arrival in Qatar, their pay slashed and then stopped altogether.
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They are neither employed nor unemployed, but would take a job if one was available at an acceptable wage.
And as each new group acquiesces, the standard for what constitutes an acceptable wage comes down in America.
The New York and North Atlantic management groups previously bargained jointly, but disagreements over acceptable wage levels led them to hold separate talks in July.
For example, we asked youths "How willing are you to take a job at different levels of pay?" and "Would you take a full-time job now, if it were as a laborer in a factory at -?" Various hourly wage levels were suggested in the latter question, beginning at $2.50 and rising until the respondent indicated an acceptable wage.
So do comments from small business owners and CEOs that the biggest reason they're delaying new hiring and investment is uncertainty over the durability of recovery not, "I can't find qualified workers at an acceptable wage".Let me reiterate; I think that the American government ignores growing structural issues at its peril.
Thus the wage they report as their reservation wage is the one that they normally start bargaining with and is above their minimum acceptable wage [19].
Think about them bringing in labor standards that are acceptable, living wages, sustainable sourcing.
Nowhere in America are those wages acceptable.
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